We know that heuristics “fill the gaps” in knowledge of recognizable scenarios such that we can comfortably demand less evidence and still come to a reasonable conclusion about our surroundings in most cases.
Intuition (what you call “faith”) is evidence. Like any evidence, it comes with uncertainty about its implications, and dependence of its reliability on other known factors. You can’t cut it some slack as a special case, rather you already know something about your mind and its heuristics that boosts the probability of them computing the right answers.
You already know that your lawful intelligence does a lot of work, considers a lot of evidence, much more than it theoretically needed, presenting its conclusions for you to feel as intuition. Even though you can’t see the machinery, can’t name specific pieces of evidence that drive your intuition, you know that it’s there. Perhaps the greatest strength that intuitive mind gives you is ability to locate the hypotheses, something other tools just can’t do.
At the same time, you know that you run on corrupted hardware, that the answers given by intuition are unreliable and may be systematically biased towards stupidity or against your values, but so are the answers of any other tool. Conditioned on the presence of features known to evoke standard biases, your intuition can be considered either more or less likely to give the correct answers. Sometimes, you have nothing except intuition and intuition is known to be compromised, but in that case you just have to acknowledge significant uncertainty in what intuition cries to be an inevitable conclusion. In other cases, you have data to update intuition’s estimates to something very unlike what intuition says by itself. Often, intuition and other sources of evidence agree.
If you will, please define intution as you understand it.
From how I understand intuition, it is knowledge for which the origin cannot be determined. I have certainly experienced the “I know I read something about that somewhere but I just can’t remember” feeling before and was right about it. However just as equally I have been wrong about conclusions that I have come to through this means.
I think your entire post gives the same visceral description as someone would describe about having “felt the holy spirit “or some other such nonsense.
I honestly think that the issue of intuition is a MAJOR hurdle for rationality. I tend to err on the side of intuition being false evidence—hence why I indicated that our heuristics filled in the blanks. That is why I categorize intuition with faith similarly.
Rather, intuition is evidence that can be easily accessed. It’s very useful to train one’s intuition to work correctly even after you know the answer by other means.
Intuition (what you call “faith”) is evidence. Like any evidence, it comes with uncertainty about its implications, and dependence of its reliability on other known factors. You can’t cut it some slack as a special case, rather you already know something about your mind and its heuristics that boosts the probability of them computing the right answers.
You already know that your lawful intelligence does a lot of work, considers a lot of evidence, much more than it theoretically needed, presenting its conclusions for you to feel as intuition. Even though you can’t see the machinery, can’t name specific pieces of evidence that drive your intuition, you know that it’s there. Perhaps the greatest strength that intuitive mind gives you is ability to locate the hypotheses, something other tools just can’t do.
At the same time, you know that you run on corrupted hardware, that the answers given by intuition are unreliable and may be systematically biased towards stupidity or against your values, but so are the answers of any other tool. Conditioned on the presence of features known to evoke standard biases, your intuition can be considered either more or less likely to give the correct answers. Sometimes, you have nothing except intuition and intuition is known to be compromised, but in that case you just have to acknowledge significant uncertainty in what intuition cries to be an inevitable conclusion. In other cases, you have data to update intuition’s estimates to something very unlike what intuition says by itself. Often, intuition and other sources of evidence agree.
If you will, please define intution as you understand it.
From how I understand intuition, it is knowledge for which the origin cannot be determined. I have certainly experienced the “I know I read something about that somewhere but I just can’t remember” feeling before and was right about it. However just as equally I have been wrong about conclusions that I have come to through this means.
I think your entire post gives the same visceral description as someone would describe about having “felt the holy spirit “or some other such nonsense.
I honestly think that the issue of intuition is a MAJOR hurdle for rationality. I tend to err on the side of intuition being false evidence—hence why I indicated that our heuristics filled in the blanks. That is why I categorize intuition with faith similarly.
I still call it intuition once I (believe I) can work out how it originated. Perhaps I would go with “cannot be easily dissected”.
Rather, intuition is evidence that can be easily accessed. It’s very useful to train one’s intuition to work correctly even after you know the answer by other means.