ABSTRACT
I ntuition has been given so many different meanings, some opposite to oth-ers, that it makes one wonder whether the term has any meaning at all. Per-haps there is no single concept that coherently encompasses the various views of intuition. Certainly that is one possibility. However, another possibility is that there is a meaningful construct that can assimilate all the valid features that have been ascribed to intuition within a single adaptive information-processing system. I make the case in this chapter that almost everything that has been attributed to intuition can be explained by the operation of a system that automatically learns from experience, which I refer to as the “experiential system.” As a result of the operation of this system, people acquire a great reservoir of unconscious information.
