I think the waking mind vs. background mind thing might be the answer to the question I was trying to ask when I got *really bothered* by the "fast and slow thinking" thesis that the tradeoff between intuitive and rational thinking is speed vs. accuracy. Sometimes intuition just works better.
Quote from the article:
"A great analogy is that your waking mind is great at finding the local maximum, but it's not so great at figuring out that there's another hill further down the path that will take you even higher."
@dynamic @yogthos@mastodon.social One thing Hickey missed in the talk was identifying subject matters as a form of dividing the problem solution into solvable pieces. This was a key aspect that Sally Shlaer and Stephen Mellor identified. (Yes. It is part of their method, but Hickey was also proposing a method.) This removes a lot of the juggling in Hickey's method.
