AI & Law: Thinking Fast and Thinking Slow

Cognition as composed of thinking fast and thinking slow

by Dr. Lance B. Eliot

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Key briefing points about this article:

• A popular metacognition model is that humans have a twofold approach to how our minds work
• One portion of our minds thinks fast, making snap decisions, called System 1 (M-consciousness)
• The other portion thinks slow, analytically so, and is known as System 2 (I-consciousness)
• This viewpoint about the mind can be applied to lawyers and performing legal reasoning
• AI has likewise the sub-symbolics and the symbolics camps

Introduction

The yin and the yang.

Thinking fast and thinking slow.

What’s this fuss all about?

There is an ongoing assertion that the human mind is composed of two divisible forms of cognition, characterized as consisting of the fast-thinking realm and its conjoined twin the slow-thinking domain.