Up to this stage, the performer needed some sort of analytical principle (rule, guideline, maxim) to connect his grasp of the general situation to a specific action. Now his repertoire of experienced situations is so vast that normally each specific situation immediately dictates an intuitively appropriate action. This intuition is possible because each type of situation, as distinguished in [...'Proficiency'], now has associated with it a specific response.
Stuart E. Dreyfus, Hubert L. Dreyfus. A five-stage model of the mental activities involved in directed skill aquisition. 1980
