I mean, again, this is a very messy thing to talk about explicitly because it's playing fast and loose with language. I think the fact that our brains are comp

I mean, again, this is a very messy thing to talk about explicitly because it's playing fast and loose with language. I think the fact that our brains are computing/pattern-recognition machines is the obvious reason computing (deducing) is 'easier'. However, human minds are not actually mysteriously really good at math. Our brains are very clearly broken at some types of mathematical problems. It's just something acedemics tell themselves. When it comes to gambling, large numbers, power laws, etc. The number of times I've had to explain to my friends and family how exponential growth "will appear" with the spread of covid is testament to the fact that our brains don't actually have that math built in, probably because it wasn't particularly important for evolutionary survival and reproduction. The entire field of behavior economics studies this delta specifically. I'd say the deductiveness of a problem, itself, is what makes people have the intuitions. It's vastly easier to use deduction that it is to do induction... because induction is by ultimately unknowable and effectively solipsistic.