(romantic as in an idealized view of reality, not love)
Human intuition is often completely wrong and it takes good judgement and constant attention to recognize when to ignore your intuition.
Today, safe flight inside clouds is possible using gyroscopic instruments that report the airplane's orientation without being misled by centrifugal effects. But the pilot's spatial intuition is still active, and often contradicts the instruments. Pilots are explicitly, emphatically trained to trust the instruments and ignore intuition—precisely the opposite of the Star Wars advice—and those who fail to do so often perish.
— Gary Drescher "Good and Real"
In the case of Star Wars, it's not intuition, but magic. As in, magic with better acuity and precision than the instruments. When Jedi "are mindful of your feelings", they are tying into supernatural sensing capabilities, not mere muscle memory.
+Gert Sønderby I agree and disagree.
I've always read these parts of SW as being a stand-in for intuition. (or at the least, how I assumed most people would take it) This made Drescher's thought here satisfying to read because I'm apparently not the only one!
+Dustin Wyatt I don't know about you, but my intuition does not let me telekinetically move objects…
+Gert Sønderby Mine does!
(I'm not sure if you're making a funny comment or making an argument because internet. Â If it's an argument I don't think its relevant. Â Metaphors often don't map one-to-one to real life concepts. )
+Dustin Wyatt A little bit of column A, a little bit of column B, honestly. Sure, you can take it as a metaphor for intuition, but you might as well take it as a metaphor for something else – perhaps inborn talent, or exceptional skill. Hence my somewhat flip reply.
IOW, I'm not really buying the Force-as-intuition metaphor.