How reliable is intuition as bodily information?
October 18, 2026
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A critical evidence review of gut feelings, interoception, expertise and the conditions under which fast bodily judgments help or mislead
Research-led explanations of human capacity, learning and technological change. Start with the foundations, then follow the evidence and related ideas as the Learning Hub grows.
A critical evidence review of gut feelings, interoception, expertise and the conditions under which fast bodily judgments help or mislead
Hugo Mercier’s research programme asks what human reasoning is for, how people evaluate arguments and testimony, and why human beings may be less gullible than many theories assume. His interactionist account of reasoning is influential and generative, but it remains a theory to be tested rather than a final explanation of rationality.
Maturity models can help organizations examine whether capability-building practices are systematic, but a level is a designed model, not a natural fact about human maturity.
Human capacity infrastructure is the Institute of Inner Technology’s synthesis framing for the shared conditions through which attention, judgment, agency, learning, relational competence, embodied awareness and responsibility are developed, maintained and made usable in real situations.
A rigorous capacity map is not a list of admirable words. It is a traceable method for defining, relating, validating, and revising the capabilities relevant to a specific human system.
How generative systems can support creative work while changing individual quality, collective diversity, authorship and human judgment.
Human factors begins from a disciplined refusal to blame the person for every failure in a system. Human capability asks the complementary question: what can people reliably perceive, decide, coordinate, and recover from inside the conditions the system creates?
Human flourishing in an age of artificial intelligence is not the maximum extraction of human potential. It is the harder question of whether people can still build lives with agency, relationship, meaning, capability, dignity, and enough freedom to decide what technology is for.
A public agency uses an AI system to rank applications for closer review. A staff member must approve each result, but the screen shows only a score and…
A baseline can help institutions notice whether people have the conditions and capacities to meet technological change. It becomes dangerous when a developmental question is mistaken for a score of human worth.