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I have a problem with articles like this one that popularizing "intuition" even more than it is right now. There are 2 definitions on intuitions that I see out

I have a problem with articles like this one that popularizing "intuition" even more than it is right now. There are 2 definitions on intuitions that I see out there in the wild, one is wrong, one has merit. 1. The good intuition is what k by Malcolm Gladwell describes in his book "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking" and it's based on true, proven expertise. 2. The bad one is often the product of anxious behavior, where someone comes up with hundreds of possible scenarios prior to the fact, and then, post-mortem, when the IRL outcome matches one of those hundreds scenarios there's the "I knew it" moment. Hipotesis and assertions have an element of Intuition, but they are worthless without any action; and plain stupid if the actions are now hedged/diversified.

_7muh 5y ago
I have intuition in another sense which you don't mention here which is the psychic power and precognitive sense. So it is more alike to your first definition than the second one. The second one I think is more like thinking or imagining or scenarioizing and like you identify I think that can be an expression of anxiety... But it can also be what people do deliberately in brainstorming or policy planning sessions to come up with all the possible kind scenarios they might face. The psychic of precognitive intuition is similar to your definition 1 in the you're basing interpretations on sort of accumulated experiences, so the thinking without thinking the learned procedural memory, subconscious associative.. but it's important to make the distinction that those interpretive functions are distinct from the sensory functions: where the data is actually coming from. You're not generating the data from your subconscious experience you're sensing the data that is coming ostensibly from outside of you (I don't really understand how that part works but I have some theories) and then you are using your interpretive apparatus that includes the things which you list into your definition 1 to aid you in interpreting that data into some usable form.

_7muh 5y ago

I have intuition in another sense which you don't mention here which is the psychic power and precognitive sense. So it is more alike to your first definition than the second one. The second one I think is more like thinking or imagining or scenarioizing and like you identify I think that can be an expression of anxiety... But it can also be what people do deliberately in brainstorming or policy planning sessions to come up with all the possible kind scenarios they might face. The psychic of precognitive intuition is similar to your definition 1 in the you're basing interpretations on sort of accumulated experiences, so the thinking without thinking the learned procedural memory, subconscious associative.. but it's important to make the distinction that those interpretive functions are distinct from the sensory functions: where the data is actually coming from. You're not generating the data from your subconscious experience you're sensing the data that is coming ostensibly from outside of you (I don't really understand how that part works but I have some theories) and then you are using your interpretive apparatus that includes the things which you list into your definition 1 to aid you in interpreting that data into some usable form.