Cognitive blindness

Cognitive blindness is the expert's inability to see the high-value moves that became automatic through repetition.

Evidence fieldLive map
Pattern
Glossary

The named rule underneath the repeated move.

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Capture
Real material
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Compare
Repeated moves
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Name
Usable model
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Cognitive blindness is caused by fluency.

When a move runs quickly enough, the expert experiences it as obvious. They skip the criteria, the timing, and the alternatives because the answer arrives already assembled.

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The blindness is specific.

A useful analysis names the mechanism: speed, felt wrongness, skipped alternatives, assumed context, or a belief treated as fact. That is why Layer 3 cannot stop at unconscious.