Intuition
Definition
Intuition refers to understanding something immediately without conscious reasoning or analysis - it's often referred to as 'gut feeling'.
Analogy
Intuition is like when you're playing dodgeball and someone throws a ball at you. You don't have time to think about what direction to move; instead, your body just reacts based on your instinct or 'gut feeling'.
Related terms
Implicit Memory: Memories that are not part of our consciousness, they are memories formed from behaviors.
Cognition: The mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.
Hindsight Bias: The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it.
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