Sergio de Miguel on Intuition and Deliberate Thinking in Creative Practice

Sergio de Miguel explores the dual-process theory of mind, drawing on Daniel Kahneman's framework of fast and slow thinking. He argues that intuition is not optional but central to project formulation in data-saturated environments, yet it must be disciplined. Fast thinking provides immediate connections and synthetic judgments, but risks substituting subjective evidence for expert recognition. Slow thinking verifies, corrects, and introduces reservations. Creativity emerges from the tension between these modes, requiring deliberate interruptions to question spontaneous conclusions. De Miguel advocates treating intuition as a hypothesis to be filtered, not an evident truth. The goal is a productive tension where speed enables broad configurations and critical scrutiny prevents infallibility. This approach acknowledges controlled ignorance and works from uncertainty without illusion. The text is a philosophical reflection on cognitive biases and creative discipline, published on Veredes.