Sixth sense and intuition

[vorlon13]

Depends on what my 'intuition' is going off on.

A 'feeling' about numbers in the lottery is fucking bullshit. A 'feeling' about a stranger coming to the door to sell something is another fish entirely. Or even in regards to one of the neighbors here . . .

[robvalue]

I defer to my favourite philosopher, Karl Pilkington. He has some interesting ideas about our senses.

http://youtu.be/xBQp5ILqF1g

[Whateverist]

I think such phenomena are our instinctive, subconscious recognition/communication tools kicking in and providing our conscious self with extra information. We all have subconscious tools, of varying levels of effectiveness, that developed when we were primarily instinctive creatures. There are people like Derren Brown who have a particular talent at consciously deploying those tools (e.g. recognising the tiniest physical responses to stimuli in his 'mind reading' techniques, using specific communication methods to provoke predicted behaviour) but there are also people who do the same without realising what they're doing (which is what I think is happening when people are sincerely convinced that they have 'psychic' powers). IMO sixth senses and 'infallable' intuition fall in to the same category.

What do you guys think about six sense and intuition? That creepy feeling on the back of your neck when meeting a what seems to be a perfectly nice person, but they rub you wrong? Or a new house that feels spooky? Or just even a feeling that something is about to happen?

There are many more than six senses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUn7zy8Ya20

What else is there to say?  

Other than ..perhaps..  that we can't ever know for sure whether we have another, super duper jimdandy sense which is completely cloaked and therefore unaccountable for by science.  Still, I'm willing to go on record as a naturalist toward extra senses.  Always was a rebel.[/sarcasm]

[Exian]

"Why didn't Hitler meet Nero?" Haha Perfect.

[Longhorn]

Can't....stop....myself....

[BrokenQuill92]

Do I want to know?

[Pyrrho]

I believe it is a scene from a movie. A woman points to her head and says:  "I'm kind of psychic.  I have a fifth sense.  It's like ESPN or something."

[BrokenQuill92]

I believe it is a scene from a movie. A woman points to her head and says:  "I'm kind of psychic.  I have a fifth sense.  It's like ESPN or something."

Giggles it's a Mean Girls quote

[Clueless Morgan]

(Although now I kind of want to test it out on the water dispenser here at my office... )

I heard no difference. :p

I always relate this to that feeling of keeping time in a song. When you play with musicians, you're bound to mess up, and when you're a novice, you'll likely stop everything and start from the beginning, whereas a seasoned player will jump back on, because the song is playing in their head. But that's not even the feeling I'm talking about, that's still the player actively keeping time. There's a point when it becomes so intuitive that you no longer have to actively keep time. It just becomes a notion.

I'm not sure I'm following your train of thought or what you're making the connection back to.

I think this could explain how sometimes we know exactly when someone might call us on the phone and other "weird" things. We subconsciously keep time with the pattern in our lives. Now, obviously this is just as much of an assertion as a supernatural explanation, but at least it moves it away from the supernatural.

The claim that "we know exactly when someone might call us" is all just confirmation bias, though. You remember the times when you think "Hey, I think mom might call me today" and when she does you pat yourself on the back and forget all the times you thought she would call and she doesn't.

I believe it is a scene from a movie.

It's from Mean Girls.

It's sad that I know that.

[Exian]

I'm not sure I'm following your train of thought or what you're making the connection back to.

Yeah, I wrote this at work and forgot to connect it all. The connection is "keeping time". In a song it's small scale and in life it's larger scale.

The claim that "we know exactly when someone might call us" is all just confirmation bias, though. You remember the times when you think "Hey, I think mom might call me today" and when she does you pat yourself on the back and forget all the times you thought she would call and she doesn't.

Oh yeah, confirmation bias explains a large portion of it. But I think people's schedules play into it too. Say your sister goes on break everyday at noon, but only has time to call you on Wednesdays usually. It's not a spoken rule, but you pick up on it, even if you don't notice you've picke up on it. I'm never seen proof of this, but I'm throwing it out there anyways, because its more plausible than anything supernatural.