Your instinctive genius

• Autores: Michael Strevens
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2938, 2013, págs. 28-29
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Strevens examines psychologist Daniel Kahneman's thoughts in his fascinating recent book Thinking, Fast and Slow. Kahneman endorses the influential psychological hypothesis that there are two kinds of systems in the mind. System 1, where the representativeness heuristic makes its home, is one of instinct or intuition. System 2 is the professor. It thinks deeply and theoretically, taking everything into account and producing much mental pain-- worth it when avoiding error is what matters most. Missing from Kahneman's picture is an important feature of the mental landscape. Certain System 1 processes are profoundly professorial: although fast and effortless like all their kind, they are also deep, theoretical and sensitive to the entire gamut of relevant information.