[p2p-research] The Power Of Intuition

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Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan by Andrew Sullivan on 1/24/10

Jonah Lehrer considers chess:

Although we tend to think of experts as being weighted down by
information, their intelligence dependent on a vast set of facts,
experts are actually profoundly intuitive. When experts evaluate a
situation, they don't systematically compare all the available options
or consciously analyze the relevant information. Carlsen, for instance,
doesn't compute the probabilities of winning if he moves his rook to
the left rather than the right. Instead, experts naturally depend on
the emotions generated by their experience. Their prediction errors -
all those mistakes they made in the past - have been translated into
useful knowledge, which allows them to tap into a set of accurate
feelings they can't begin to explain. Neils Bohr said it best: an
expert is "a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a
very narrow field." From the perspective of the brain, Bohr was
absolutely right.




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