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Well, by definition, thinking is always explicit reasoning, no? And I'd hazard a guess that a well-thought through Fermi Estimation beats lizard-brain eyeballi

• YetAnotherNick 2y ago
  My guess would be no. I have terrible face recognition ability and I can look into face for hour and still other people could easily beat me in less than a second.(I am assuming "well-thought through Fermi Estimation" would be similar for me and others in this case).
  • mjcohen 2y ago
    Look into a disease called faceblindness (there is a fancy name I forget).
• Terr_ 2y ago
  > Well, by definition, thinking is always explicit reasoning, no? That doesn't feel right to me. (Heh, accidentally appropriate word choice.) There are a lot of tasks we do that are arguably "thinking" yet don't involve an internal "Oh, hey, I'm gonna solve this problem, I'm thinking right now." For example, imagine you're at a park, and someone is feeding the ducks. Another person walks up behind them and sucker-punches them into the pond. It should be almost a reflex [0] that you'll conclude "the puncher is bad" and "the person in the water needs help" without explicitly reasoning out. I think that task qualifies as "thinking", especially since it involves some kind of theory-of-mind about those other humans. [0] An exception might be someone with a sociopathic disability, who would have to think more-explicitly to realize what reaction is expected of them.