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Comment by joepvd | Hacker News Reader

I took this excellent story the same as you did. For me, this is the central point:

    My gut still tells me I’m right, but my brain knows 
    better than to trust my gut.

This is a nice phrasing of one of the things one has to come to term with while becoming a computer professional.

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Beware, there are many times where my gut has been right over my logic. Don't deny the intelligence of your gut. Your brain has subconscious processes that are just as intelligent as your conscious processes.

Your gut often does follow some kind of logic, it's just you don't have access to what it did to arrive at that uneasy feeling in your stomach.

Though you don't realize it but our ability to see in three dimensions is a subconscious process. If you look at a cube you cannot choose how or when you process that image. In fact you don't even have a choice, once you look at a cube your brain forces you to know what you're looking at. Additionally, you don't even know what your brain did to interoperate that image as a cube. Yet you do know that there is some powerful subconscious calculation going on that derives that analysis.

In short, don't underestimate your gut.

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