(March 25, 2019 at 12:42 am)Abaddon_ire Wrote:(March 24, 2019 at 4:57 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: I've been thinking about this intuition thing. It's totally bologna, lol. What is intuition in the first place? It's an unconscious assessment of empirical data, expressed as an innate, informed sense. Without sense experience, there is no information, and so there couldn't be intuition. Empiricism is the platform off of which intuition takes its leap. Sure, maybe its a "back of the house" assessment, like you said, but its still an assessment. That it feels different is irrelevant, and as you said, we use the same methods to distinguish between good/bad intuition and good/bad sense experience. That's because they're essentially the same thing. Giving something a different label doesn't magically transform it into something other than exactly what it is.
I'm not sure that is quite right. "Intuition" can still work absent any data at all. Data is not required. I suspect that baseless intuition is preferentially selected by evolution and the unintended consequence is religion.
Without sensory input, what are we intuiting?
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”
Wiser words were never spoken.
Wiser words were never spoken.
