Compared to intuition, much of which seems to be pattern recognition, logic is slow and often inaccurate. Hence pattern recognition appears relatively early in evolution, whereas logic seems to have shown up only so recently as to have been within the scope of human history. True, it has great powers -- we can build world-destroying weapons which are so terrible we can't use them -- but these are apparently of no use whatever to bacteria or tigers.
In accurate thinking, simple errors, wishful thinking, dingbats galore, most people are incapable of being right (in a very basic sense) does this comport with your meaning?
I was just considering the differences between intuition and logic in animal brains, not that I know a lot about brain physiology. Both logic, which seems to have to do with language, and intuition seems subject to errors in all cases. However, the narrow scope of logic and its potential for self-checking might make it more accurate in some.
Compared to intuition, much of which seems to be pattern recognition, logic is slow and often inaccurate. Hence pattern recognition appears relatively early in evolution, whereas logic seems to have shown up only so recently as to have been within the scope of human history. True, it has great powers -- we can build world-destroying weapons which are so terrible we can't use them -- but these are apparently of no use whatever to bacteria or tigers.
In accurate thinking, simple errors, wishful thinking, dingbats galore, most people are incapable of being right (in a very basic sense) does this comport with your meaning?
I was just considering the differences between intuition and logic in animal brains, not that I know a lot about brain physiology. Both logic, which seems to have to do with language, and intuition seems subject to errors in all cases. However, the narrow scope of logic and its potential for self-checking might make it more accurate in some.