[makerdiety]

Karl Marx said something along the lines of "Each man does a job according to his abilities." Something like that.

I take it, then, this modern society and civilization wants to specialize in low level technician style work and wait for aliens or angels to come and do the hard work of inventing faster than light travel? You know, intuition is the best scientists and engineers can do and all.

[sqeaky]

I feel that you can't or aren't being serious. We just covered the go to example of a smart person doing the go to example of smart thing advancing advancing humanity's knowledge using intuition and other modes of thought.

No one is saying we shouldn't also have other kinds of intelligence. You just started bashing one kind of intelligence, and provided quite possibly the absolute worst possible example.

Thought, in the general sense, isn't a solved problem or even all that clearly understood yet. We don't yet have a working mathematical model of it and aren't even sure that will be a thing. At present we know of many kinds of intelligence and we can see then work differently on different problems.

[makerdiety]

Since you insist in human intuition being a "required step in the process of knowledge discovery," I can safely say that your time preference you have is what led to the segmentation of the human species into categories such as races. When, really, any human baby born on Earth, absolutely any human child or man, that is, has the same genetics as a high level athlete like the famous Lebron James basketball player. There's no real difference between the races or types of humans. And, similarly, there's no difference between the "types" of intelligences that human intuition can help grab hold of.

Quantum mechanics is a magical system, to you, only because you're limited and guided by your human biases and preferences. Dumping intuition is the way to go for seeing past the toys and child's play that is modern science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

[xanderlewis]

"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs"