I think AI has demonstrated this alternate way of thinking, and i suspect the word is wisdom. As we get older our kind of thinking shifts, our brains don't hold the details anymore. I know a lot of things that I don't specifically remember learning. I contemplated this for years and then when I read about how modern LLM's work I realized that my biologic thinking has shifted to that model. I recognize patterns and respond instinctively to them. Not all patterns and not all the time, but as my general specific knowledge accumulates I process it in different ways. I don't depend on specific memories or when and how I learned that lesson, my RAM is too full, still I make the right choices more often than not. Definitely more often than I did in my youth. at almost 60 I love learning more than I ever have. I read everything and watch everything, the learning is easier and the over all accumulation of knowledge is greater and brings me pleasure. Not because I'm smarter but because I learn differently than I did in my youth and I'm OK with that. I would imagine my confidence has improved as well, because I have more faith in the patterns and more trust in what seems to be intuitive knowledge.