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Intuition as it's seen in engineering

ZNP-TBA

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I'm sensory leaning and I work in a pretty techy field. A lot of my coworkers are much more intuitive than me and are also probably much better at what they do than I am because they're able to think their way through a problem in a more abstract manner,

Can you provide an example?
 

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Usually, they are going down to lower levels and operating their instead of on the surface level; e.g., approaching a task from a base physics approach rather than from the immediate issue.

Make any sense?
I thought the intuitive one is operating at a higher level than ideal, and making up the details as he goes
 

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I thought the intuitive one is operating at a higher level than ideal, and making up the details as he goes

Well, take for instance a situation of something being broken. You could just fix the thing at face-value, or you could go into basic principles to find the solution to why it broke. Although this is a "higher level" of thinking, it is really going down to the level underlying the issue.

When designing a new system, you first break apart the structures of an existing system to find weak links, then you design the new system with the weak links replaced by stronger links, even if the individual weak links are replaced by multiple links that together form a stronger link.
 

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For a visual representation, when all the red looking framework stuff goes into the sky, this is the deconstruction into the constituent parts, and when it collapses back down is the reconstitution or reconstruction back into a new whole.


Make sense?
 

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I don't know if computer science is classified as engineering (some may say yes others no), but intuitive thinking is often looked kindly upon. In fact CS itself is sometimes described as the art of problem solving.
A boss in my recent workplace called us programmers engineers. Most of us had an engineering degree in CS

edit: oh wait, it's Master's in English. But the Finnish word for that education includes the title "engineer".
 

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From now on I'll say that CS is witchcraft and not engineering because I prefer that our users regard me as a wizard, rather than engineer :D
 

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CS -> Witchcraft is a substitution Randall Munroe would approve of
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haha very funny. I'd totally forgotten about xkcd.

lolz
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