The spirit of the Fun Criterion
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With an account, you can revise, criticize, and comment on ideas.There we said we have three types of knowledge or three categories of knowledge. have our statements, which are our explicit knowledge. We can express fully in words. We have intuitions, which are know how skills we know how to do it, but
we cannot articulate it fully in words but we can approximate it and then the third category is our drives which are completely unconscious knowledge
We have no idea what's driving it, but they make themselves known to our consciousness via our feelings.
Deutsch uses the terms explicit, inexplicit, and unconscious.
Are you saying intuitions are synonymous with inexplicit knowledge, or are you saying they’re an example of it?
Are you saying drives are synonymous with unconscious knowledge, or are you saying they’re an example of it?
Synonymous indeed. In a previous video I labeled Deutsch's terms to make them easier to discuss and get a better sense for. You're correct that the specific mapping I use is:
Statements = explicit knowledge
Intuitions = inexplicit knowledge
Drives = unconscious knowledge
I wonder if ‘drive’ is really a good word for unconscious ideas. In this context, my Dictionary app says:
an innate, biologically determined urge to attain a goal or satisfy a need: emotional and sexual drives.
and
“determination and ambition to achieve something: her drive has sustained her through some shattering personal experiences.”
But neither of those is unconscious. People are aware of their sexual and emotional drives and their ambitions.
In addition, there are other types of unconscious knowledge. As you say in your video, habitualization is a source of unconscious knowledge.
When I hear the word ‘drive’, I think of determination and ambition, which take lots of conscious effort. I don’t think of habitualized knowledge, which by definition takes no effort.