Do you believe in intuition?

11 years ago

Intuition as a subconscious culmination of life experience used to predict future outcomes? Yes.

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lcombs

11 years ago

I believe we all have a "6th sense".
We just don't know how to use it.

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Jacqueline Smith 11 years ago

Originally Posted by lcombs

I believe we all have a "6th sense".
We just don't know how to use it.

I agree.

I have had a few experiences in my life that defy all logic. I have no doubt my 6th sense was at work.

One situation resulted in me saving a life. Although it can be terrifying at times, I never ignore my intuition.
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Dennis Gaskill

11 years ago

Intuition, sure. I'd guess everyone has had intuitive moments. There was a time when I was in third grade and some fire trucks went by. I stood up in class and said, "I have to go, that's my house." I didn't even think about doing it, I'd describe it almost like an involuntary reflex.

I wasn't the kind of kid to do that, and even if I was, I had a crush on Miss Brown so I wouldn't intentionally do anything to get on her bad side. Naturally I was scolded and told to sit down. It was my house though. Somehow I knew it.

Another time I was at a race track watching stock car races. Before the main event they had drawings to give away stuff. I went to the races every Saturday night and had never won anything and never thought I was going to. But one Saturday was different. They started the giveaway and I took my ticket stub out of my pocket and looked at my number. When they announced the next prize was a Garcia rod and reel, I said out loud to my friends, "I'm going to win that." And I did. Can't explain it, but I just knew it was going to be mine.

Pure psychic ability though ... I'd bet 99% of those claiming to be psychic are phonies. Still, it's hard to dismiss well-documented cases like Edgar Cayce. I'd say I'm skeptical first, but still open-minded enough about it that I wouldn't say it's absolutely not possible.

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tagiscom 11 years ago

Yep, use it on a regular bases, usually to pick out an empty parking space at shopping centres.

As long as l don't get in the way it is always spot on, or as spot on as events allow.

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HeySal

11 years ago

I didn't realize that people thought intuition wasn't just a part of normal brain function. There's actually a gland in the area of the stomach that they recently found that acts like the second brain - that is why the "gut feeling", when you are intuitive. Some of your subconscious instinctual coding welling into the consciousness.

Serious - ESP might be theoretical - intuition isn't.

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Alexa Smith

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Originally Posted by HeySal

I didn't realize that people thought intuition wasn't just a part of normal brain function.

Nor did I, until quite recently. But some people apparently do ...

It would be a very brave (or perhaps just "unwise") person who said they "didn't believe in intuition", wouldn't it? To me, that would be like "not believing in UFO's": clearly there are UFO's in the sense that they're "unidentified" (albeit that most also remain unidentified and unaccounted for). The same with intuition: clearly it exists - what's debatable is its causes.

Malcolm Gladwell has written a truly fascinating book accounting for some of its causes:

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking:...

(There's also quite a lot of interesting discussion of its causes and functions in some of Michael Shermer's books.)

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HeySal

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Nor did I, until quite recently. But some people apparently do ...

It would be a very brave (or perhaps just "unwise") person who said they "didn't believe in intuition", wouldn't it? To me, that would be like "not believing in UFO's": clearly there are UFO's in the sense that they're "unidentified" (albeit that most also remain unidentified and unaccounted for). The same with intuition: clearly it exists - what's debatable is its causes.

Malcolm Gladwell has written a truly fascinating book accounting for some of its causes: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking: Malcolm Gladwell: 9780316010665: Amazon.com: Books

(There's also quite a lot of interesting discussion of its causes and functions in some of Michael Shermer's books.)

Not sure when Glawell wrote his book - but I might just have a look at it sometime. They only found the gland a few years back and said it acted as a second "brain" - does some physiological tricks besides intuition, but I don't remember what. It seems it is connected to the subconscious portion of the mind - and that would be the part that is not linguisically coded, so there wouldn't be actual conscious thought - no words, just feelings. When you consider that everything from birth onward that we see, smell, feel, taste, touch etc is coded in the subconscious, it makes sense that we have intuition. It's remarkable that we understood enough about it to recognize it as a feeling in the gut area.

There's still that pesky mystery of the part of the mind that can't be accounted for via the actual physical brain - consciousness and sentience. Perhaps intuition is also something beyond just subconscious wiring.

It's such a fascinating subject. Esoteric and scientific at the same time. Loves me some cognitive sciences.

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Frank Donovan

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

It would be a very brave (or perhaps just "unwise") person who said they "didn't believe in intuition", wouldn't it?

Indeed. In his excellent book:

Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman effectively "demystifies" the process of intuition by defining it as a normal part of brain function. Broadly, he describes it as pattern recognition that accesses stored memories. There's a lot more to the subject than that, obviously, but what seems clear is that intuition exists as an integral part of everyone's thought process.

Intuition certainly isn't infallible and can frequently be wrong or misleading (as Gladwell acknowledges in "Blink"), but that just means we need to understand, recognize, and learn more about the role it plays in our decision-making and thinking.

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HeySal

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Frank Donovan

Indeed. In his excellent book: Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman effectively "demystifies" the process of intuition by defining it as a normal part of brain function. Broadly, he describes it as pattern recognition that accesses stored memories. There's a lot more to the subject than that, obviously, but what seems clear is that intuition exists as an integral part of everyone's thought process.

Intuition certainly isn't infallible and can frequently be wrong or misleading (as Gladwell acknowledges in "Blink"), but that just means we need to understand, recognize, and learn more about the role it plays in our decision-making and thinking.

Frank

Exactly. Intuition is not infallible.
You code the sensory data you intake according to associations with previously coded data - which means there is some sort of personal bias coded right into it. NOTHING in our subconscious or conscious mind exists objectively, even though we can learn logic and critical thinking, we can never achieve pure unadulterated objectivity unless the sensory data is so extreme in uniqueness it is impossible for us to associate it with anything else in our experiential files - and those files consist of every second of your life, so it's really hard to find the kind of uniqueness required to exist with absolutely zero associable attributes.

If a person isn't real bright - their intuition isn't going to be as much of a help as others will find theirs.

What some people have mentioned here - is not actually "intuition". That's like the example given earlier that someone knew their house was on fire. That's not really intuition - it's more of a higher sense - 6th sense, ESP. That deals more with being able to detect disturbances in energy fields and waves. It's way more esoteric than the real sense of intuition, which is a tool for decision making. It also can't really be denied either, although people seem to have a crowd mentality tendency to dis people who talk seriously about the subject. We used to have a lot of higher senses that have basically atrophied due to both lack of necessity and social pressure to deny these senses. Those who have really severely repressed senses will often accuse people who have well developed senses of being "nut cases". And so it goes.

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travlinguy

11 years ago

Originally Posted by HeySal

I didn't realize that people thought intuition wasn't just a part of normal brain function. There's actually a gland in the area of the stomach that they recently found that acts like the second brain - that is why the "gut feeling", when you are intuitive. Some of your subconscious instinctual coding welling into the consciousness.

Serious - ESP might be theoretical - intuition isn't.

I think women with big intuition glands are really sexy.

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Khemosabi 11 years ago

Originally Posted by travlinguy

I think women with big intuition glands are really sexy.

Alas, my intuition glands are all in my nether regions.
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- travlinguy 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Khemosabi
  
  Alas, my intuition glands are all in my nether regions.
  
  So which one is you in your avitar?
  
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  Khemosabi 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by travlinguy
  
  So which one is you in your avitar?
  
  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA Oh, you're heee-larious!
  
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