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[!summary]The author explains that our intuition (System 1) can be reprogrammed through practice and reflection (System 3). Instead of opposing intuition to reason, we can make them work together to improve understanding. This approach helps us think better and become smarter over time. [!note]
Una lectura que considero muy interesante del sistema 3 es pensarlo en relación a los efectos del proceso analítico, en el sentido de desarrollar nuevas intuiciones sobre la estructura y dinámica de nuestro psiquismo, más alineadas con las constraints de nuestras neurosis, como consecuencia de proyectar y analizar metacognitocamente el fenómeno en compañía de un otro especialmente entrenado para asumir esa función.
Highlights
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System 2 is what you have to use when you’re asked to calculate 47 x 83, or how many days have passed since your birth. You know how to get the answer, but you’d have to think. You probably need pencil and paper.
Buen ejemplo de dispositivo cognitivo: escritura para expandir la mente (memoria de trabajo y operaciones)
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When I need to make an important decision in my life, if my intuition tells me to choose option A and my reason tells me to choose option B, I tell myself there’s something going on and I’m not ready to make the decision. That’s the moment to resort to what I call System 3. System 3 is an assortment of introspection and meditation techniques aimed at establishing a dialogue between intuition and rationality. You use it each time you try to recall your dreams, to put words to the fleeting impression that left a strange taste in your mouth, to sort out your most confused and contradictory ideas. When I was eighteen and I discovered that the stupid images in my head had a tendency to correct themselves once I made the effort to describe and name them, when I got into the habit of lending an ear to the dissonance between my intuition and logic, I put System 3 at the center of my strategy for learning math. The results exceeded my wildest expectations.
Qué relación tendrá con el trabajo analítico y la redescripción representacional?
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It’s obviously stupid to call this approach System 3. It should simply be called thinking or reflecting. But the meaning of these words has been hijacked by a tradition that wants to make us believe that we should think contrary to our intuition. We’re told that our intuition is the mortal enemy of reason, that any dialogue between the two is impossible, and thinking means you have to submit blindly to System 2.
Cómo se puede pensar la intuición desde una perspectiva psicoanalítica?
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My intuition isn’t any less fallible than yours. It’s always getting things wrong. I have, however, learned never to be ashamed of it. I don’t disdain my mistakes, I don’t push them aside, because I don’t think that they betray my intellectual inferiority or some cognitive biases hardwired in my brain. On the contrary. Nothing’s more exciting than a big glaring error: it’s always a sign that I’m not looking at things in the right way, and that it’s possible to see them more clearly. When I’m able to put my finger on an error in my intuition, I know it’s good news, because it means that my mental representations are already in the process of reconfiguring themselves. My intuition has the mental age of a two-year-old—it has no inhibitions and always wants to learn. If you stop mistreating your own, you’ll see that it’s exactly like mine, only asking to be allowed to grow.
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I have these pictures in my head because, in my life, I have made a lot of calculation errors. Instead of concluding that I was terrible at math, I simply looked for simpler ways to see things, to grasp what I was writing. In time, with this approach, I constructed a great variety of mental images that help me today to better understand the world—including the particular one that enabled me to find the price of the ball.
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When you say to people that certain truths are by nature counterintuitive, you tell them that they can never really understand. It’s a way of discouraging them. Nothing is counterintuitive by nature—something is only ever counterintuitive temporarily, until you’ve found means to make it intuitive.