Illusory intuitions: Challenging the claim of non-exclusivity

Simon J Handley; Omid Ghasemi; Michal Bialek

doi:10.1017/S0140525X22003168

Illusory intuitions: Challenging the claim of non-exclusivity

Behav Brain Sci. 2023 Jul 18:46:e125. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X22003168.

Authors

Simon J Handley¹, Omid Ghasemi², Michal Bialek³

Affiliations

¹ School of Psychological Sciences, Macquarie University, Macquarie Park, NSW, Australia [email protected]://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/simon-handley.
² School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia [email protected]://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LyL_5s8AAAAJ&hl=en.
³ Institute of Psychology, University of Wroclaw, Wrocław, Poland [email protected]://sites.google.com/view/michalbialek.

PMID: 37462177
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X22003168

Abstract

A person who arrives at correct solutions via false premises is right and wrong simultaneously. Similarly, a person who generates "logical intuitions" through superficial heuristics can likewise be right and wrong at the same time. However, heuristics aren't guaranteed to deliver the logical solution, so the claim that system 1 can routinely produce the alleged system 2 response is unfounded.

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Humans
Intuition*
Logic*