Intelligence Design or How to Design the Instrumentation of Intelligence Analysts' Reasoning

As many articles and books testify, the science of reasoning is today a very open field after a long phase in which this cognitive activity was conceived as belonging to a logical engine whose implementation takes place with variable levels of consciousness, declined at the extremes into intuitive and deliberative. If this conception articulating these levels (e.g. system 1 and 2, fast and slow, implicit and explicit) continues to be mobilised, other proposals put forward, for example, the communicational or interactional function of rational activity for the purpose of justification and argumentation. Reasoning (or analysis) as conducted by agents within the intelligence cycle (and more generally in any investigative work aimed at revealing hidden agendas) is still poorly understood and has mainly been considered in terms of this dual intuition/deliberation partition, mainly within the computationalist, representationalist and modularist framework of the cognitive sciences. After briefly recalling these works and their evolutions, some tracks will be proposed to enrich this science of reasoning and analysis and to contribute to the development of a design approach called Intelligence Design, which aims to bring about new technological environments dedicated to the production of intelligence in light of a renewed understanding of the analysis activity.