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comprehensive intuition which could tie together a whole mass 
of particular facts. However, he biased his own argument by 
considering only acceptable hypotheses and valid intuitions. In 
fact, most of our intuitions are invalid. As Bronowski has 
explained machines can devise false hypotheses or arrive at 
false intuitions, as we ourselves can, and to that extent machines 
can devise hypotheses. What a machine cannot do is to devise 
correct hypotheses. There is no possibility of devising a machine 
trained to execute the inductive logic of John Stuart Mill. 
Huxley: Descriptions by mathematicians of how their 
discoveries have been made show that intuition does come with 
this extraordinary feeling of being right. This is something very 
different from a formal process of logical steps. Intuition may 
be the result of a lot of logical steps, some perhaps in the 
unconscious mind, but it is not reached by a deductive process. 
Medawar: You guess at the hypothesis and then deduce its 
consequences. 
Crick: The sad thing is that you can have the feeling, but it 
may be quite wrong! 

