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Changing intuition
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May 19, 2014
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I've noticed lately that certain things that didn't used to seem intuitive to me are starting to become intuitive. This suggests that intuition changes over time and depends on circumstances and experiences, which means it's not really intuition. It's knowledge. But people talk about it like it's a fixed quantity of stuff that each person has in equal measure. My intuition should be the same as your intuition, which should be the same as everyone's, etc. Or I guess more accurately, people with the same job or the same background or the same mental abilities should have the same amount of intuition. But I constantly find myself butting up against colleagues who try to appeal to our equivalent levels of intuition to avoid having to explain things. "Don't you get it? It's intuitive." If you have to explain it, it's obviously not intuitive. #psychology
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