"The Navy is pulling an M. Night Shyamalan. In a tough fight, rely on a “sixth sense,”
say its mad scientists, not just your reasoning skills. That’s the way to win wars.
Promising “new insights into intuitive decisionmaking,” the futuristic Office of Naval
Research is putting together a new program to turn what it actually calls a “sixth
sense” into a military advantage. “Evidence is accumulating that this capability,
known as intuition or intuitive decision making,” the scientists say in a new
proposal, “enables the rapid detection of patterns in ambiguous, uncertain and time
restricted information contexts.” Mastering with intuition, the Navy says, should help
troops with “Cyberwarfare, Unmanned System Operators, Information Analysts,
Small Unit Leaders and other domains.”"
See:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012...y-sixth-sense/