《开发我们的大脑》一文以“直觉”这一概念收尾,却没有提供解释。直觉的西方理解是笛卡尔在《探究真理的指导原则》里定义过的:在例如学习数学的过程中,若我们的心智关注着某一命题的论证,于是我们会从它的前提到它的结论,反复多次地审查,最后因熟悉而达到一种境界,就是能够直接从前提看到结论。笛卡尔说,这就是“直觉”(源自拉丁文的英文单词“intuition”)。这当然是典型的西方理解。 The article “Developing our brains” ends with the notion of “intuition,” but gives no explanation. Intuitive Western understanding is defined by Descartes in “The Guiding Principles of Inquiry Into Truth”: In the process of learning mathematics, for example, if our mind is concerned with the argument of a proposition, we will from its premise to its Conclusions, repeatedly reviewed many times, and finally reached a realm of familiarity, is the ability to see conclusions directly from the premises. Descartes said that this is “intuition” (derived from the English word “” intuition "in Latin). This is of course a typical Western understanding.