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IAIN Eternal Order england 18807 Posts |
I'm a firm believer in intuition...we are modern day animals that's all, we should listen and consider what our intuition tells us more I feel...
animals do, remember those awful tsunamis a few years back? all the animals fled a few hours before there was even a hint of what was going to happen...they all just upped and went... women's instinct - they use it far more cos they're more emotively driven and therefore use it more... perhaps the more you use it, the stronger it gets...perhaps, just perhaps a highly developed sense of intuition could be defined as psychic? rather than the hackneyed old "movie" definition of what psychic means?
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Looch Inner circle Off by 3362 Posts |
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On 2008-01-10 09:55, ALEXANDRE wrote: Life experience if you ask me, What about all the times in life where you do something and it goes wrong or is a mistake? Is that a failure of a 6th sense or did intuition just not "kick in" so to speak? Putting it down to a mixture of life experience and common sense is more likely to be the answer, but what do I know? Its just a feeling I have
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Energizer Special user A well known funeral palour 582 Posts |
Yeah, fair point.
But ... I think there have been various neuro-imaging studies that have shown that it is possible to process information (such as words or facial expressions) unconsciously. For example a face or word is flashed in front of the participants' eyes so quickly it cannot be consciously registered - i.e. subliminally. This alone is enough to cause activation in particular brain regions that are associated with emotional responses (such as the amygdala). The greater the emotive force of the word (as judged by a selection of independent judges), the greater the activation. And ... the style of activation also depends on what kind of facial expression is used as a stimulus. Obviously control participants who do not receive the subliminal treatment(s) do not show the same brain activity. But then ... If I recall correctly ... People who have received the subliminal treatment will respond differently to a subsequent task or situation compared to those who didn't receive it. For example, those who have been exposed to a subliminal angry face will report greater levels of fear when subsequently shown a clip from a scary film, for example, compared to those who were not shown the subliminal angry face. Similarly, those who have been flashed words such as 'blood', 'hate' or whatever, also show a heightened fear response compared to those who have been flashed more neutral words, or those who have not received subliminal stimulation. In other words, they've processed the warning signs unconsciously, and hence used that information to guide them in the subsequent situation. It could be said that they intuited what was was going to happen - they knew something bad was coming, but they didn't know why. It wasn't a rational, intelligent response, but a gut one - even though it was based on sensory information. They unconsciously perceived a threat without consciously registering one. Their emotions and not their intellects guided their responses in what happened next. I think that is a good empirical example of intuition. Hope that is clear. Please don't ask me to cite any evidence for all this. And I think this post is in agreement with those of kinesis on this subject. Olly
"We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines" - W. Axl Rose, circa 1992.
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Looch Inner circle Off by 3362 Posts |
Alexandre, you may benefit from reading "Blink" By Malcolm Gladwell if your interested in this area
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AlexSem New user 50 Posts |
Last I heard, Blink is not very good. If intuition and the human mind interests you, read The power of NOW by Eckhart Tolle.
Intuition is a deep feeling within you present at all times if you learn to recognize it. It is based on real life experienced AND beliefs you hold. And then some How does "good" intuition come about? You do something a lot, you get a lot of experience. You process this experience into the subconscious. It is now there, when you experience stuff, the subconscious is there to help you out, if you are able to listen. Intuition is what tells you not to go get drunk, not to walk that dark alley and not to do drugs Oh it also happens to be a good lie detector. |
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BH_Magic New user 20 Posts |
Blink is good for a bit of light reading on the matter, but by far the best book I have encountered about it is David G. Myers' Intuition. An article of his about intuition was featured in Scientific American Mind recently, but you can read several for free on his website.
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mindsynced Regular user 155 Posts |
Some have suggested that many police officers have used intuition to make a decision about the danger of a suspect when there was no visible eveidence. This "intuition" saved their lives.
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Tom DV Special user 694 Posts |
Mindsynced, all very well, but what about the many people who haven't lived to tell of their 'intuiton'?
harishjose seems to be on the ball. May I suggest a study in evolutionary psychology if anyone's really interested. |
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Energizer Special user A well known funeral palour 582 Posts |
I think psychodynamics has a lot to offer in understanding intuition, as you can tell from my posts above.
It's commonly acknowledged that we receive a vast array of sensory data which is beyond our awareness when in everyday interactions, especially social interactions. Perhaps this data informs or guides some kind of '"out of awareness" response. It is not uncommon to only vaguely register something in a social situation, but then to forget all about it. But if reminded of this thing later on we get a feeling of 'yes, now you mention it, I was aware of that'... and may even say so! So I'm saying that intuition is most relevant in social situations when we are assessing and evaluating the people around us. Yes, it applies to whether we are judging if they are a danger or not, but we also use intuition to detect what kind of a role they want us to take on - we intuit the anxieties that they are projecting on to us and then respond without really thinking about it. We may then identify, or get caught up with, their scripts, and start playing their games. Or we may be able to remain detached and not get involved. It might be appropriate to think of intuition as 'mind-reading' - empathy - and to think of us all as having a boundary-setting function that fluctuates in its degree and intesity - empathy and intuition allow us to get mixed-up with other people's states of mind and to experience a 'crossing-over' of emotion ... to experience what they are experiencing. But ego-strength, logic and rationality help us not to get too caught up. Of course there's distortion - social interaction is like a hall of mirrors, and we're likely to intuit some of the things that we are pre-disposed to intuit ... thanks to our own unconscious needs, drives, issues etc. But I think intuition is best conceptualized in the concept of 'theory of mind' and 'mind-reading'. Hope that's clear. So, with respect to Tom DeVoe, I think psychodynamics has just as much to offer in understanding intuition as evolutionary psychology. Olly
"We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines" - W. Axl Rose, circa 1992.
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kriskraze Special user 620 Posts |
Intuition is a negative by-product of evolution.
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