Intuitiveness?
A package came from China today containing a watch that tracks two time zones. Said package launched a discussion of a European chess tournament. Said discussion resulted in my telling a coworker that a computer had finally beaten a chess master at his own game. Then came comments regarding the end of the world, computers taking over, and all that hoo-hop and what-not.
But what about intuition? said I. Computers who win chess games are based in logic. Intuition is a human feeling, or, so I’ve thought for most of my life. The other day, I read an article, or part of an article that expressed an opinion that intuition was based in sensory perception. A part of our mind constantly monitors our surroundings, and when something that we ourselves are not aware of is off, that part of our consciousness picks up on the change no matter how small, giving us the feeling of intuition.
If this is true, would it be possible to program a computer to recognize these miniscule miscues, and create an “intuitive” computer? Now, I’m not saying it’d be an easy task to catalogue/program/input into a database the minor exceptions that create a snag in the fabric of a perfect day, but I believe it is possible nonetheless.
I’m sure there’s much scientific research that delves far deeper into the issue (and probably from decades ago, too!). But I haven’t read that, and this is what I was thinking today.
