The Power of Intuition

[Write4U]

Still, remember your intuition works on whatever you've learnt, and this may actually be complete bullshit

I agree, but IMO, that is just a matter of gradually storing better informaton, which is an evolutionary process.

 

[Asexperia]

so would you define it as subconscious thought ? subconscious thought that is simply statistical variance of known workable formula of a set known range of probabilistic laws ?

I define intuition from a psychological perspective, not a statistical one.

 

[Write4U]

I define intuition from a psychological perspective, not a statistical one.

I define it as a "quorum sensing"

 

[Speakpigeon]

THE POWER OF INTUITION
The intuition is the ability to discover spontaneously the essence of things and relations between them.

Learn music to get musical intuitions.
Learn mathematics to get mathematical intuitions.
Learn trash to get trash intuitions.

Various are the interpretations that have been given to intuition, from a mystical or divine power to a power of divination. It is also widely believed that intuition is a women's faculty.

What idiotic idea is not widely believed?

From a psychological perspective, intuition is an unconscious mental process of exaltation.

???
Exaltation? Surely you mean something else?

Exaltation
A state or feeling of intense, often excessive exhilaration or well-being.

So, how does it work to unconsciously feel excessive exhilaration or well-being?

Philosophically, intuition is defined as the ability to obtain new knowledge without the intervention of the senses or the reasoning. But these are two views to conceive the same process.

Not at all.

Intuition
4. (Philosophy) philosophy immediate knowledge of a proposition or object such as Kant's account of our knowledge of sensible objects

Kant used the term "intuition" to refer to our immediate awareness of our percepts. Very, very different from the usual notion of intuition.
Still, intuition (and a memory) can be understood as indeed a percept. However, knowledge is knowledge of the percept, not knowledge that the percept is true of the world outside your mind. That's true of all our percepts. We know them, but we can only believe that they are true of the world we believe they represent.
The claim that intuition somehow provides knowledge cannot be justified. Intuition is definitely the outcome of an unconscious process of the brain. Presumably, this process takes as input sensory data and conscious thoughts data. However, whether your intuitions are actual knowledge, well, we just don't know.
It's really very much like memory. Whether what you remember is actual knowledge, well, how do you prove that? It's OK to believe your memory is knowledge of the past, but it's more accurate to say that a memory is a belief. Beliefs may be wrong and still be belief. Knowledge can't be wrong. If you know that p, then p is true.
EB

 

[Write4U]

Intuition is the brain's instant "best guess" of identifying a possible threat. It is a survival mechanism, "fight or flight", evolved into other areas of more sophisticated (subtle) cognitive abilities.

 

[Asexperia]

An explanation of intuition may be the reading of brain of genetic information.

 

[wegs]

I think one's ''intuition'' also stems from past experiences. If you've had bad experiences doing 'x' then other situations that resemble ''x'' will cause you to have a similar feeling.

 

[Seattle]

Information always helps any situation. If you are prone to seeing a lot of "miracles" understanding probabilities will help. If everything is an unknown to you, learning more will help. Learning to think and make an "educated" guess or thinking in terms of getting the magnitude right will eliminate a lot of really bad decisions.

At its best, as mentioned above, intuition is largely based on previous experience.

 

[Asexperia]

Intuition is based on reflections about a topic.

 

[Write4U]

Intuition is based on reflections about a topic.

IMO, intuition is based on, and evolved from our reptilian brain. "Fight or Flight" is a fundamental intuitive response action in the face of an unknown condition representing possible danger.
It is suspected to be a hardwired neural response system, connected to the startle response system and is a very primitive chemical "mirror" response system, but of course has since expanded with our greater knowledge and understanding of previously "unknown" conditions.

Example; a single celled Paramecium swims and learns to avoid obstacles by the sensory input from its cilia, probably the very first functional sensory organ in mobile biological organisms.

The Paramecium spirals through the water as it progresses. When it happens to encounter an obstacle, the "effective stroke" of its cilia is reversed and the organism swims backward for a brief time, before resuming its forward progress. This is called the avoidance reaction. If it runs into the solid object again, it repeats this process, until it can get past the object.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramecium

When it swims it bumps into obstacles and causes the cilia to interrupt and affect their regular swim movement and thereby alter course to pass the obstacle. A startle response which causes the organism to change course. Neat chemical trick for a brainless organism. It is a quasi-intelligent bio-chemical response action.

From there, the "fight or flight" response evolved, and here we are still reacting intuitively and relying on ancient survival techniques when startled or presented with an unknown quantity......

 

[Asexperia]

Intuition is based on, and evolved from our reptilian brain. "Fight or Flight" is a fundamental intuitive response action in the face of an unknown condition representing possible danger.

Fight or flight is an instinctive, not intuitive response.

 

[Write4U]

Fight or flight is an instinctive, not intuitive response.

Intuition is an evolved quality of instinct.
They are both mental phenomena. Instinct (reptilian brain) is just more fundamental than intuition (modern brain).

 

[Asexperia]

Intuition is an evolved quality of instinct.
They are both mental phenomena. Instinct (reptilian brain) is just more fundamental than intuition (modern brain).

That's better.

 

[Write4U]

That's better.

I think that's what I said to begin with.......

 

[RainbowSingularity]

(reptilian brain)

do humans have reptilian DNA ?

 

[Asexperia]

Intuition is located in the pineal gland, the third eye.

 

[candy]

Intuition is located in the pineal gland, the third eye.

Intuition stems from the sympathetic nervous system not the cerebral system.
Claircognizance is different than contemplation.

 

[Asexperia]

Intuinics in the science that studies intuition.

 

[Asexperia]

Is intuiton really a power?

 

[Asexperia]

Intuition is to spin an idea in the mind until we manage to apprehend it.