I wrote a book about AI and have come to the conclusion that natural intelligence (in all its forms) is infinitely smarter than AI. A combination of both, natural intelligence augmented by AI, would be a perfect combination. Hence, “You Already Know: The Science of Mastering Your Intuition” by Laura Huang.
Intuition
Intuition is a typical example of natural intelligence. Gut feeling. Thinking and feeling combined. Is there a difference between intuition and gut feel? The answer is a resounding yes. Intuition is the process that leads to the moment of recognition we call our gut feeling. Either way, there comes a moment when we just know.
A tool
Nonlinear, parallel processing that can handle vast amounts of information, integrate sensory inputs, make decisions, and generate thoughts and actions in a remarkably efficient and flexible manner. Multiple interdependent physiological processes occur simultaneously, with the nervous, endocrine, and circulatory systems communicating constantly to maintain homeostasis. Our intuitive process constantly draws on physical, emotional, and cognitive inputs.
A flash of clarity
Intuition is a mode of processing nonsequential information. The ability to take quick action on that gut feel at the right time. The author´s research showed that those who trusted this gut feel (the outcome of their intuitive process), rather than an arbitrary thought while still in the midst of the intuiting process, found that it doesn’t lie. It is the flash of clarity. A deeper level of cognition and understanding. Beyond EQ. Cutting through the complex and chaotic. Dealing with unknown unknowns. A compass in the wilderness.
Inner voice
How to develop your inner voice:
- Hard work.
- Listen to what whispers and not what screams.
- Flip a coin and map the sensation.
- Know the sensation (liquid, solid or gas, aha, uh-oh, whoa or eureka, jolt, and spidey sense)
- Check your priors (assumptions, experience, data, bias, etc)
- Understand that your gut feeling is you.
- Be tacit.
- Be reflective
- Be decisive
- Apply focused abstraction
- Focus. Your focus determines your reality.
- Know yourself.
- Know your truth location (everyone’s embodied gut feel will be different).
- Travel. Have your mind blown, eat interesting food, dig some interesting people, and have an adventure.
Simple problems
You do not need intuition for simple and complicated problems. They are ordered and cause and effect are known or can be discovered (knowable). They require is for us to follow a rule or method.
Unordered
Complex and chaotic problems are “unordered,” meaning cause and effect are unknown and can be deduced only with hindsight or not at all (unknowable). Complex problems do not have clear cause-and-effect relationships. Cause and effect can only be deduced in retrospect, and thus, there are no clear right answers.
It is quantum. If you send things out into the universe, the universe gives you signals. Know the things that matter, the things that are supposed to matter but don’t, and the things that may or may not matter. Look for it. Resonance, cues, coincidences, crossroads, incidents, accidents, anything that tingles.
AI does not have that tingle….. yet (QAI)?
