Intuiton: It's Powers and Perils

by phil on Sunday Sep 28, 2003 9:52 AM
intuition

David G. Myers: Intuition: Its Powers and Perils

You process vast amounts of information off screen. You effortlessly delegate most of your thinking and decision making to the masses of cognitive workers busily at work in your mind's basement. Only the really important mental tasks reach the executive desk, where your conscious mind works. When you are asked, "What are you thinking?" your mental CEO answers, speaking of worries, hopes, plans, and questions, mindless of all the lower-floor laborers.