I do think he's right that human nature saddles us with some unfortunate limitations, but I also think – and actually he himself shows in the "slow thinking" part of his book – that we have the means to overcome some of our limitations, through education, through institutions, through enlightenment.
I learn today, via Geoff Pullum, that a fake book, "Fast and Slow Thinking" by a nonexistent Karl Daniels, is selling on Amazon to customers who think they are buying the excellent "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman.
Individuals who have pickwickian syndrome often complain of slow thinking, drowsiness, and fatigue.
Pleasure is a profound and potent form of attention, a kind of slow thinking.
If Ambrosio's story was a Slow Food tale gone awry, then what I was doing was Slow Reporting, Slow Thinking, Slow Storytelling, Slow Living.
South summed up the situation rapidly, which was essential: slow thinking would have helped the defense considerably.
Other symptoms may include fatigue, depression, anxiety, irritability, restlessness, tingling, memory problems, slowed thinking, changes in body temperature, sweating and constipation.
Fortunately, conservative-hierarchical-individualistic investors are not condemned to remain skeptical forever, but can flip the switch from what Daniel Kahneman calls "fast" to "slow" thinking (Kahneman 2011).
Slow thinking is our conscious thought process, easier to audit and closer to what we traditionally think of as higher intelligence.
It had been a night of slow thinking and near-paralysis with words, yet he'd managed this, which was essentially what he'd intended to say.
Unfortunately, even 200 years after Laplace, most people are not able to use their slow thinking to reason about probability in a coherent manner.
