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Has intuition saved your life or prevented considerable pain and suffering. . .?
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[quote:George B:MV8yMTYyMjEwXzM2NTUxNTUxX0YwNUQzMEYy] [quote:George B:MV8yMTYyMjEwXzM2NTUwNTU1XzRGOEM5MzhF] [quote:George B:MV8yMTYyMjEwXzM2NTQ5NTgyXzI0MkUxRTVB] [quote:Unixlike:MV8yMTYyMjEwXzM2NTQ5NTAyX0VDRjc5NDUy] [quote:George B:MV8yMTYyMjEwXzM2NTQ5MjcwXzQ4Rjc3NTND] [quote:George B:MV8yMTYyMjEwXzM2NTQ4Mjc2XzE5MjhCNzZD] [quote:George B:MV8yMTYyMjEwXzM2NTQ3ODUyXzc5ODc4NDc3] I was used as a disinterested third party investigator and inspector throughout my career . . . the funny thing is many times what turned out to be my most accurate and useful findings were not based solely on fact but a sense of, or intuition of, the state of reality. Maybe the brain simply weighs the preponderance of physical data observed and other experiences (which are sometimes below a conscious threshold) and crunches out the best approximation of reality without even consciously understanding how it was arrived. [/quote] So intuition is possibly and ultimately based upon hard data . . . but its collection and inclusion into ones decision algorithm is subliminal and many times inexplicable. Bottom line, I learned to trust my intuition and was rewarded richly for doing so . . . simple coincidence or just probability being my friend ??. . . I tend to think I was collecting information and weighing it without my conscious faculties being aware . . . :verycool: [/quote] This reliance upon a subjective feeling seemed to be more prevalent when the complexity of the problem/s being investigated were the most complex or even overwhelming. With an increase in complexity came a greater reliance on subjectivity and lower desire or need for objectivity. Maybe when our conscious cognitive pathways are overwhelmed by too much input and analytical stimulation, one's offline supercomputer kicks in like a backup generator in a power outage . . . efficiently running analysis in background mode and once the computations are complete the answer is supplied . . . but since its existence seems detached from a conscious process we believe it to be subjective and intuitive when it is really objectively based as well . . . :coffee4: [/quote] My intuition tells me this is right;) Our brains somehow sort through the huge volume of data and make predictions based on likelyhoods and calculations that are too complex for us to visualize in a linear fashion. This need not be certain calculations that determine particular outcomes, but can simply be a weighing of possibilities and likelyhoods. A subconcious risk assessment, if you will. [/quote] Would seem to be logical and ultimately adaptive. . . . and seem mystical as well. . . However, I still think there are unknown input of information that is not explainable. . . .:coffee4: [/quote] In fact, intuition could simply be an evolutionarily derived defensive and survival mechanism using offline resources to crunch tons of seemingly irrelevant environmental data points to arrive at conclusions only realized or come forward (as a feeling) when the full complement of conscious senses are fully engaged and preoccupied with survival . . . thus the perception of the conclusion was a feeling, a warning, a hunch . Why? Because the overall analysis was way too complex to bring the entire data set and analysis to consciousness because that would overload the organism ability to cope and render it into a state of confusion and paralysis. [/quote] Why may this be true . . . Cognitive Load Theory and "Memory, of course, is at least as much a process of filtering as of remembering. " "Another aspect of cognitive load theory involves understanding how many discrete units of information can be retained in short-term memory before information loss occurs. An example of this principle that seems to be commonly cited is the use of 7-digit phone numbers, based on the theory that most people can only retain seven "chunks" of information in their short-term memory." http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_load [b] " Look at the facts. We register, through our senses, 13 million bits of information every second. [1] Of those, we are consciously aware of one to three. Virtually every second of our waking life we take in a barrage of manmade information, mostly visual and aural: 34 gigabytes worth, [2] according to recent research at UC San Diego, equivalent to 100,000 words daily, or almost a quarter of Tolstoy's massive War and Peace[/b]. Yet our short-term memory can handle no more than (approximately) seven items at a time. Seven out of 100,000, seven out of those 13 million. Memory, of course, is at least as much a process of filtering as of remembering. The trouble is, we are conditioned to want to retain and act on information. When our senses and consciousness are deluged with far more data than we evolved to deal with, we run into trouble." http://m.psychologytoday.com/blog/shut-and-listen/201301/information-overload-its-not-just-bloody-nuisance [/quote]
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Has intuition saved your life or prevented considerable pain and suffering. . .?
1) Yes . . . Please specify by posting details
2) Yes . . . Intuition is based on personally obtained conscious and primarily subconscious (subliminal) knowledge
3) Yes. . . Intuition is based on subconscious information transmitted to you by external sources. . . Paranormal
4) Yes. . .Intuition is based on a subconscious weighting and sifting process of data observed but not acknowledged
5) Yes. . . Intuition is based on at least two of the above (#2, #3 & # 4)
6) Maybe . . . Please specify by posting details
7) Don't Know
8) No . . . Intuition is pure bunk. . . .
9) No. . . Intuition is no more than a good guess and luck
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