Intuition: How Experts Make Fast Decisions

["Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>]

Intuition:  how experts do it.

http://www.fastcompany.com/online/38/klein.html

Interesting.  We've discussed aspects of this when 
considering the cognitive approach of fast decision 
makers and game players.  Somewhere in the Star Trek 
literature is the description of the battle that made 
James Kirk the youngest Captain in the fleet.  He 
describes a decision he made in which he could 'see 
the battle forming'.  Some claim this to be a 'genius' 
capability yet this article insists this is simply 
experience.  While not coming down on one side or 
the other there, it is evident that simulations based 
on expert systems have the power to train (d'oh) and 
that if interpersonal relationships thrive or die 
based on cultural imperatives, our training systems 
must have the cultural components as augmented by 
near real time information.

len