Where do intuitions come from?
Podcasts, especially when featuring brilliant people, are excellent catalysts for creative thinking and novel ways to consider established ideas.
Is conscience related to intuition?
In a recent podcast, Dr. Jordan Peterson and Dr. Gad Saad discussed, among other things, human conscience. This topic was considered in relation to the premise that ideas can be destructive to human minds, the theme of Saad’s book, the Parasitic Mind.
Jordan offered a perspective on conscience suggesting that our 5 physical senses feed the mind contributing to the formulation of a response to a situation. At the time, I wondered why the sense of intuition was not included in his argument.
Conscience seems to play a role in determining a response by providing, as Gad suggested, some unseen model of right and wrong against which potential responses are measured for appropriateness.
Where does that model come from and why does it manifest as intuition and a guide for choice? BingChat (GPT-4) offers this answer:
Intuition is a product of brain processing that automatically compares swiftly perceived elements of current experience with past experience and knowledge. It is often referred to as “gut feelings” and is delivered to awareness with considerable emotional certainty. Psychologists believe that intuition relies on powers of pattern-matching, as the mind combs experience stored in long-term memory for similar situations and presents in-the-moment judgments based on them1.
Some people believe that intuition comes from our higher self. From that part of us which is much higher than our physical body and its 5 senses. Our higher self is that divine part of us that is able to know and see things that we don’t
My life lens suggests an alternative explanation.
I do not possess the advantages of the GPT-4 Large Language Model of ‘artificial intelligence’ which can search the Internet in seconds to answer questions like these. I can, however, provide my own intuitive response based on my beliefs.
As I have written elsewhere….
I believe that all creation and reality takes place in Mind (some might say it is the Mind of God) and ‘mind’, the “place” where reality and creation “occur” in individuals like you and me.
I refer to my creations as artifacts of my mind (consciousness), “articons” for short. All articons are retained eternally as Articons in the universal Mind. Reality is manifest as arrays of Articons on display for each mind to experience in life.
Creation occurs when new and original articons are conceived and conjoined with Articons. Those new articons merge with the Articons to manifest the “fabric of Reality”, the “stage” upon which we act in Life.
In the context of the Peterson/Saad discussion, the conscience “model” to which Gad referred is analogous to the category of Articons which are most familiar to mind and most trusted by that mind as a guide for action.
Intuition was described as a “felt sense” by Dr. Eugene Genlin years ago. I consider it analogous to the creative process of articons conjoining with Articons to strongly suggest to appreciate actions.
It’s immaterial.
Notice that my explanation does not rely in the existence of a human brain, or any other material item. This is because I believe that…
… everything that we perceive as existing in time, space and matter is, in realty, the expression of articons and Articons manifested in minds conjoined with Mind in an eternal Now.
I have watched The Egg many times. A short video, it is a delightful depiction of an interchange between the mind of a man and the Mind of God.
Enjoy.
