3 ms·
How would you go about showing that emotions, feelings and intuition produce good results without proving that very idea rationally? While intuition may be use
by whybroke 10y ago
How would you go about showing that emotions, feelings and intuition produce good results without proving that very idea rationally?
While intuition may be useful to get good results (perhaps it is the subconscious quickly applying some pattern that has worked in the past) there's no way to know a particular use of intuition worked unless you go back later and rationally analyze the results.
And more importantly, there's no reason to believe intuition works at all unless we either 1) understand it on something like a neurological psychological level (I would not hold my breath waiting for this) or 2) do some statistical modeling of it's reliably.
- meric 10y agoForget reason, rely only on intuition, and there will be no 'working' or 'not working'. Stop thinking and end your problems. (Tao Te Ching, chapter 20) Isn't that what we are all after, having no problems? Is there any point in time where in reality you are more than sensory signals entering your consciousness? Is everything not a mere an illusion of your mind? Letting intuition figuring everything out is effortless, why dwell on illusions? Thus there is no use for reason.
- ordu 10y ago> And more importantly, there's no reason to believe intuition works... Yes, there is. Humans are alive, they survived the evolution and they used intuition much more frequently then rationality. Logic was invented by greeks less then 3k years ago and before there was no way for rationality to exist. Intuiton does works in most cases. It is the apparent fact.
- whybroke 10y agoVery sensible point. But I would emphasize that in order to justify the value of intuition in this case, you had to resort to reason as well as anthropology and evolutionary biology. That last one in particular most especially is the product of rational empiricism. So again it appears we can only trust intuition if we can rationally prove that trust is justified.