Hey, although the intuition quote that has been floating around lately
hasn't been confirmed yet, it makes a lot of sense, I think it mirrors
the way we deal with real world problems. We rarely try to consciously
remember sequences when we're solving problems, or more accurately,
intelligence is rarely perceived as the ability to remember sequences,
it's more of an intuitive ability to see things right away. In real
life situations, sometimes you bump into a solution or a piece of
information that just "occurs" to you, this happens without any direct
conscious control. In dual-n-back, using the intuitive approach, I was
surprised by how I can reliably enter
the right answers, without exhibiting any conscious effort, every
trial feels like a new "occurrence", and you quickly realize that it
is reliable , that the odds of it
happening by chance are very small, and that your brain must be
capable of operating unconsciously on the problem. dual-n-back might
be a way to get comfortable with this capacity, to play around with it
while expanding it.