Comment by tommyjohn on Your intuitions are not magic · 2011-11-18T22:27:32.188Z · LW · GW

So then anything that has evolved may be relied upon for survival? It is impossible to rationalize faith in an irrational cognitive process. In the book Blink, the author asserts that many instances of intuition are just extremely rapid rational thoughts, possibly at a sub-conscious level.

Comment by tommyjohn on Disputing Definitions · 2011-11-18T21:58:30.378Z · LW · GW

Is this a problem with logic or a linguistic expression of a paradox?