Sixth sense and intuition

[Clueless Morgan]

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.

What I meant was, in what way is this idea of keeping time connected to the idea of intuition or a "sixth sense?"

Keeping time with music isn't hard for people trained in how to do it. Professional musicians practice for hours upon hours upon hours upon hours so whatever prescient or intuitive abilities they might seem to have have been drilled into them by... practice. It's also not so amazing when you're singing along to a song you know well and come back into the room and you're still on time. If you know the song well then you're far more likely to have something like that happen, and the odds of that happening only increase if you've had musical training. What would be way more amazing would be if you did this with a song you don't know well or only heard once or twice.

There's also the question of how accurate your memory of this happening actually is and to what degree your brain has reconstructed the memory to make seem like you were exactly on time with the music when you returned to the room when you were actually two or three counts slow.

But that's a whole other can of worms.

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.

So... you've detected a pattern that your sister calls you every week and so you develop an "intuition" that she'll call you every week? That's not amazing, that's pattern recognition.

Perhaps I'm still not understanding you?