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Intuition

Intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge, without recourse to conscious reasoning or needing an explanation.[2][3] Different fields use the word "intuition" in very different ways, including but not limited to: direct access to unconscious knowledge; unconscious cognition; gut feelings; inner sensing; inner insight to unconscious pattern-recognition; and the ability to understand something instinctively, without any need for conscious reasoning.[4][5] Intuitive knowledge tends to be approximate.[6]

A phrenological mapping[1] of the brainphrenology was among the first attempts to correlate mental functions with specific parts of the brain.

The word intuition comes from the Latin verb intueri translated as "consider" or from the late middle English word intuit, "to contemplate".[2][7] Use of intuition is sometimes referred to as responding to a "gut feeling" or "trusting your gut".[8]

Psychology edit

Freud edit

According to Sigmund Freud, knowledge could only be attained through the intellectual manipulation of carefully made observations. He rejected any other means of acquiring knowledge such as intuition. His findings could have been an analytic turn of his mind towards the subject.[9]

Jung edit

In Carl Jung's theory of the ego, described in 1916 in Psychological Types, intuition is an "irrational function", opposed most directly by sensation, and opposed less strongly by the "rational functions" of thinking and feeling. Jung defined intuition as "perception via the unconscious": using sense-perception only as a starting point, to bring forth ideas, images, possibilities, or ways out of a blocked situation, by a process that is mostly unconscious.[10]

Jung said that a person in whom intuition is dominant—an "intuitive type"—acts not on the basis of rational judgment but on sheer intensity of perception. An extroverted intuitive type, "the natural champion of all minorities with a future", orients to new and promising but unproven possibilities, often leaving to chase after a new possibility before old ventures have borne fruit, oblivious to his or her own welfare in the constant pursuit of change. An introverted intuitive type orients by images from the unconscious, ever exploring the psychic world of the archetypes, seeking to perceive the meaning of events, but often having no interest in playing a role in those events and not seeing any connection between the contents of the psychic world and him- or herself. Jung thought that extroverted intuitive types were likely entrepreneurs, speculators, cultural revolutionaries, often undone by a desire to escape every situation before it becomes settled and constraining—even repeatedly leaving lovers for the sake of new romantic possibilities. His introverted intuitive types were likely mystics, prophets, or cranks, struggling with a tension between protecting their visions from influence by others and making their ideas comprehensible and reasonably persuasive to others—a necessity for those visions to bear real fruit.[10]

Modern psychology edit

In modern psychology, intuition can encompass the ability to know valid solutions to problems and the making of decisions. For example, the recognition-primed decision (RPD) model explains how people can make relatively fast decisions without having to compare options. Gary Klein found that under time pressure, high stakes, and changing parameters, experts used their base of experience to identify similar situations and intuitively choose feasible solutions. The RPD model is a blend of intuition and analysis. The intuition is the pattern-matching process that quickly suggests feasible courses of action. The analysis is the mental simulation, a conscious and deliberate review of the courses of action.[11]

Instinct is often misinterpreted as intuition. Its reliability is dependent on past knowledge and occurrences in a specific area.[dubious ] For example, someone who has had more experience with children will tend to have better instincts about what they should do in certain situations with them. This is not to say that one with a great amount of experience is always going to have an accurate intuition.[12]

Intuitive abilities were quantitatively tested at Yale University in the 1970s. While studying nonverbal communication, researchers noted that some subjects were able to read nonverbal facial cues before reinforcement occurred.[13] In employing a similar design[clarification needed], they noted that highly intuitive subjects made decisions quickly but could not identify their rationale. Their level of accuracy, however, did not differ from that of non-intuitive subjects.[14]

According to the works of Daniel Kahneman, intuition is the ability to automatically generate solutions without long logical arguments or evidence.[15] He mentions two different systems that we use when making decisions and judgements: the first is in charge of automatic or unconscious thoughts, the second in charge of more intentional thoughts.[16][page needed] The first system is an example of intuition, and Kahneman believes people overestimate this system, using it as a source of confidence for knowledge they may not truly possess. These systems are connected with two versions of ourselves he calls the remembering self and experiencing self, relating to the creation of memories in "System 1"[jargon]. Its[ambiguous] automatic nature occasionally leads people to experience cognitive illusions, assumptions that our intuition gives us and are usually trusted without a second thought.[16][page needed]

Gerd Gigerenzer described intuition as processes and thoughts that are devoid of typical logic. He described two primary characteristics to intuition: basic rules of thumb (that are heuristic in nature) and "evolved capacities of the brain".[5][page needed] The two work in tandem to give people thoughts and abilities that they do not actively think about as they are performed, and of which they cannot explain their formation or effectiveness. He does not believe that intuitions actively correlate to[clarification needed] knowledge; he believes that having too much information makes individuals overthink, and that some intuitions will actively defy known information.[5][page needed]

Intuition is also seen as a figurative launch pad for logical thinking. Intuition's automatic nature tends to precede more thoughtful logic.[17][page needed] Even when based on moral or subjective standpoints, intuition provides a base—one that people will usually start to back up with logical thinking as a defense or justification rather than starting with a less biased viewpoint. The confidence in whether it is an intuition or not comes from how quickly they happen, because they[clarification needed] are instantaneous feelings or judgments that we have surprising confidence in.[17][page needed]

Philosophy edit

Both Eastern and Western philosophers have studied intuition. The discipline of epistemology deals with the concept.

Eastern philosophy edit

In the East intuition is mostly intertwined with religion and spirituality, and various meanings exist in different religious texts.[18]

Hinduism edit

In Hinduism, various attempts have been made to interpret how the Vedic and other esoteric texts regard intuition.

For Sri Aurobindo, intuition comes under the realm of knowledge by identity. He describes the human psychological plane (often referred to as mana in Sanskrit) as having two natures: The first being its role in interpreting the external world (parsing sensory information), and the second being its role in generating consciousness. He terms this second nature "knowledge by identity."[19]: 68  Aurobindo finds that, as the result of evolution, the mind has accustomed itself to using certain physiological functions as its means of entering into relations with the material world; when people seek to know about the external world, they default to arriving at truths via their senses. Knowledge by identity, which currently only explains self-awareness, may extend beyond the mind and explain intuitive knowledge.[19]: 69–71 

He says this intuitive knowledge was common to older humans (Vedic) and later was superseded by reason which currently organises our perception, thoughts, and actions and which resulted in a transition from Vedic thought to metaphysical philosophy and later to experimental science. He finds that this process, which seems to be decent,[clarification needed] is actually a circle of progress, as a lower faculty is being pushed to take up as much from a higher way of working.[clarification needed][19]: 75  He says that when self-awareness in the mind is applied to one's self and to the outer (other) self, this results in luminous self-manifesting identity;[jargon] and the reason also converts itself into the form of the self-luminous[jargon] intuitional knowledge.[19]: 72 [20][19]: 7 

Osho believed human consciousness is in a hierarchy from basic animal instincts to intelligence and intuition, and humans being constantly living in that[ambiguous] conscious state often moving between these states depending on their affinity. He suggests that living in the state of intuition is one of the ultimate aims of humanity.[21]

Advaita vedanta (a school of thought) takes intuition to be an experience through which one can come in contact with and experience Brahman.[22]

Buddhism edit

Buddhism finds intuition to be a faculty in the mind of immediate knowledge. Buddhism puts the term intuition beyond the mental process[clarification needed] of conscious thinking, as conscious thought cannot necessarily access subconscious information, or render such information into a communicable form.[23] In Zen Buddhism various techniques have been developed to help develop one's intuitive capability, such as koans – the resolving of which leads to states of minor enlightenment (satori). In parts of Zen Buddhism intuition is deemed a mental state between the Universal mind and one's individual, discriminating mind.[24]

Western philosophy edit

In the West, intuition does not appear as a separate field of study, but the topic features prominently in the works of many philosophers.

Ancient philosophy edit

Early mentions and definitions of intuition can be traced back to Plato. In his Republic he tries to define intuition as a fundamental capacity of human reason to comprehend the true nature of reality.[25] In his works Meno and Phaedo, he describes intuition as a pre-existing knowledge residing in the "soul of eternity", and as a phenomenon by which one becomes conscious of pre-existing knowledge. He provides an example of mathematical truths, and posits that they are not arrived at by reason. He argues that these truths are accessed using a knowledge already present in a dormant form and accessible to our intuitive capacity. This concept by Plato is also sometimes referred to as anamnesis. The study was later continued by his intellectual successors, the Neoplatonists.[26]

Islam edit

In Islam various scholars have varied interpretations of intuition (often termed as hadas, Arabic: حدس, "hitting correctly on a mark"), sometimes relating the ability to have intuitive knowledge to prophethood. Siháb al Din-al Suhrawadi, in his book Philosophy Of Illumination (ishraq), from following influences of Plato, finds that intuition is knowledge acquired through illumination and is mystical in nature; he also suggests mystical contemplation (mushahada) to bring about correct judgment.[27] Also influenced by Platonic ideas, Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) finds the ability to have intuition is a "prophetic capacity" and he describes intuition as knowledge obtained without intentionally acquiring it. He finds that regular knowledge is based on imitation while intuitive knowledge is based on intellectual certitude.[28]

Early modern philosophy edit

In his book Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes refers to an "intuition" (from the Latin verb intueor, which means "to see") as a pre-existing knowledge gained through rational reasoning or discovering truth through contemplation. This definition states that "whatever I clearly and distinctly perceive to be true is true";[29] this is commonly referred to as rational intuition[30] It is a component of a potential logical mistake called the Cartesian circle. Intuition and deduction, says Descartes, are the unique possible sources of knowledge of the human intellect;[31] the latter is a "connected sequence of intuitions",[32] each of which is a priori a self-evident, clear and distinct idea, before it is connected with the other ideas within a logical demonstration.

Hume has a more ambiguous interpretation of intuition. Hume claims intuition is a recognition of relationships (relation of time, place, and causation). He states that "the resemblance" (recognition of relations) "will strike the eye" (which would not require further examination) but goes on to state, "or rather in mind"—attributing intuition to power of mind, contradicting the theory of empiricism.[33]

Immanuel Kant edit

Immanuel Kant’s notion of "intuition" differs considerably from the Cartesian notion. It consists of the basic sensory information provided by the cognitive faculty of sensibility (equivalent to what might loosely be called perception). Kant held that our mind casts all of our external intuitions in the form of space, and all of our internal intuitions (memory, thought) in the form of time.[34]

Contemporary philosophy edit

Intuitions are customarily appealed to[clarification needed] independently of any particular theory of how intuitions provide evidence for claims. There are divergent accounts of what sort of mental state intuitions are, ranging from mere spontaneous judgment to a special presentation of a necessary truth.[35] Philosophers such as George Bealer have tried to defend appeals to intuition against Quinean doubts about conceptual analysis.[36]

A different challenge to appeals to intuition comes from experimental philosophers, who argue that appeals to intuition must be informed by the methods of social science.[citation needed]

The metaphilosophical assumption that philosophy ought to depend on intuitions has been challenged by experimental philosophers (e.g., Stephen Stich).[37] One of the main problems adduced by experimental philosophers is that intuitions differ, for instance, from one culture to another, and so it seems problematic to cite them as evidence for a philosophical claim.[38] Timothy Williamson responded to such objections against philosophical methodology by arguing that intuition plays no special role in philosophy practice, and that skepticism about intuition cannot be meaningfully separated from a general skepticism about judgment. On this view, there are no qualitative differences between the methods of philosophy and common sense, the sciences, or mathematics.[39] Others like Ernest Sosa seek to support intuition by arguing that the objections against intuition merely highlight a verbal disagreement[clarification needed].[40]

Philosophy of mathematics and logic edit

Intuitionism is a position advanced by L. E. J. Brouwer in philosophy of mathematics derived from Kant's claim that all mathematical knowledge is knowledge of the pure forms of the intuition—that is, intuition that is not empirical.

Intuitionistic logic was devised by Arend Heyting to accommodate this position (it has also been adopted by other forms of constructivism). It is characterized by rejecting the law of excluded middle: as a consequence it does not in general accept rules such as double negation elimination and the use of reductio ad absurdum to prove the existence of something.[citation needed]

Artificial intelligence edit

Researchers in artificial intelligence are trying to add intuition to algorithms, as the "fourth generation of AI"; this can be applied to many industries, especially finance.[41][unreliable source?] One example of artificial intuition is AlphaGo Zero, which used neural networks and was trained with reinforcement learning from a blank slate.[42][unreliable source?] In another example, ThetaRay partnered with Google Cloud to use artificial intuition for anti-money laundering purposes.[43][unreliable source?]

Business decision-making edit

In a 2022 Harvard Business Review article, Melody Wilding explored "how to stop overthinking and start trusting your gut", noting that "intuition... is frequently dismissed as mystical or unreliable". She suggested that there is a scientific basis for using intuition and refers to "surveys of top executives [which] show that a majority of leaders leverage feelings and experience when handling crises".[8] However, an earlier Harvard Business Review article ("Don't Trust Your Gut") advises that, although "trust in intuition is understandable... anyone who thinks that intuition is a substitute for reason is indulging in a risky delusion".[44]

Intuition was assessed by a sample of 11 Australian business leaders as a gut feeling based on experience, which they considered useful for making judgments about people, culture, and strategy.[45] Such an example likens intuition to "gut feelings", which — when viable[clarification needed] — illustrate preconscious activity.[46]

Honours edit

Intuition Peak in Antarctica is so named "in appreciation of the role of scientific intuition for the advancement of human knowledge".[47][relevant?]

See also edit

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  47. ^ Intuition Peak. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

Further reading edit

External links edit

  • Nobel prize winner Daniel Kahneman Video on Intuition
  • Nobel prize winner Daniel Kahneman PDF on Intuition
  • Ask Philosophers: Question on Intuition and Rationality
  • A special issue of the journal Psychological Inquiry dedicated to the topic of intuition

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For other uses see Intuition disambiguation Intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge without recourse to conscious reasoning or needing an explanation 2 3 Different fields use the word intuition in very different ways including but not limited to direct access to unconscious knowledge unconscious cognition gut feelings inner sensing inner insight to unconscious pattern recognition and the ability to understand something instinctively without any need for conscious reasoning 4 5 Intuitive knowledge tends to be approximate 6 A phrenological mapping 1 of the brain phrenology was among the first attempts to correlate mental functions with specific parts of the brain The word intuition comes from the Latin verb intueri translated as consider or from the late middle English word intuit to contemplate 2 7 Use of intuition is sometimes referred to as responding to a gut feeling or trusting your gut 8 Contents 1 Psychology 1 1 Freud 1 2 Jung 1 3 Modern psychology 2 Philosophy 2 1 Eastern philosophy 2 1 1 Hinduism 2 1 2 Buddhism 2 2 Western philosophy 2 2 1 Ancient philosophy 2 2 2 Islam 2 2 3 Early modern philosophy 2 2 4 Immanuel Kant 2 2 5 Contemporary philosophy 2 2 5 1 Philosophy of mathematics and logic 3 Artificial intelligence 4 Business decision making 5 Honours 6 See also 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External linksPsychology editFreud edit According to Sigmund Freud knowledge could only be attained through the intellectual manipulation of carefully made observations He rejected any other means of acquiring knowledge such as intuition His findings could have been an analytic turn of his mind towards the subject 9 Jung edit In Carl Jung s theory of the ego described in 1916 in Psychological Types intuition is an irrational function opposed most directly by sensation and opposed less strongly by the rational functions of thinking and feeling Jung defined intuition as perception via the unconscious using sense perception only as a starting point to bring forth ideas images possibilities or ways out of a blocked situation by a process that is mostly unconscious 10 Jung said that a person in whom intuition is dominant an intuitive type acts not on the basis of rational judgment but on sheer intensity of perception An extroverted intuitive type the natural champion of all minorities with a future orients to new and promising but unproven possibilities often leaving to chase after a new possibility before old ventures have borne fruit oblivious to his or her own welfare in the constant pursuit of change An introverted intuitive type orients by images from the unconscious ever exploring the psychic world of the archetypes seeking to perceive the meaning of events but often having no interest in playing a role in those events and not seeing any connection between the contents of the psychic world and him or herself Jung thought that extroverted intuitive types were likely entrepreneurs speculators cultural revolutionaries often undone by a desire to escape every situation before it becomes settled and constraining even repeatedly leaving lovers for the sake of new romantic possibilities His introverted intuitive types were likely mystics prophets or cranks struggling with a tension between protecting their visions from influence by others and making their ideas comprehensible and reasonably persuasive to others a necessity for those visions to bear real fruit 10 Modern psychology edit In modern psychology intuition can encompass the ability to know valid solutions to problems and the making of decisions For example the recognition primed decision RPD model explains how people can make relatively fast decisions without having to compare options Gary Klein found that under time pressure high stakes and changing parameters experts used their base of experience to identify similar situations and intuitively choose feasible solutions The RPD model is a blend of intuition and analysis The intuition is the pattern matching process that quickly suggests feasible courses of action The analysis is the mental simulation a conscious and deliberate review of the courses of action 11 Instinct is often misinterpreted as intuition Its reliability is dependent on past knowledge and occurrences in a specific area dubious discuss For example someone who has had more experience with children will tend to have better instincts about what they should do in certain situations with them This is not to say that one with a great amount of experience is always going to have an accurate intuition 12 Intuitive abilities were quantitatively tested at Yale University in the 1970s While studying nonverbal communication researchers noted that some subjects were able to read nonverbal facial cues before reinforcement occurred 13 In employing a similar design clarification needed they noted that highly intuitive subjects made decisions quickly but could not identify their rationale Their level of accuracy however did not differ from that of non intuitive subjects 14 According to the works of Daniel Kahneman intuition is the ability to automatically generate solutions without long logical arguments or evidence 15 He mentions two different systems that we use when making decisions and judgements the first is in charge of automatic or unconscious thoughts the second in charge of more intentional thoughts 16 page needed The first system is an example of intuition and Kahneman believes people overestimate this system using it as a source of confidence for knowledge they may not truly possess These systems are connected with two versions of ourselves he calls the remembering self and experiencing self relating to the creation of memories in System 1 jargon Its ambiguous automatic nature occasionally leads people to experience cognitive illusions assumptions that our intuition gives us and are usually trusted without a second thought 16 page needed Gerd Gigerenzer described intuition as processes and thoughts that are devoid of typical logic He described two primary characteristics to intuition basic rules of thumb that are heuristic in nature and evolved capacities of the brain 5 page needed The two work in tandem to give people thoughts and abilities that they do not actively think about as they are performed and of which they cannot explain their formation or effectiveness He does not believe that intuitions actively correlate to clarification needed knowledge he believes that having too much information makes individuals overthink and that some intuitions will actively defy known information 5 page needed Intuition is also seen as a figurative launch pad for logical thinking Intuition s automatic nature tends to precede more thoughtful logic 17 page needed Even when based on moral or subjective standpoints intuition provides a base one that people will usually start to back up with logical thinking as a defense or justification rather than starting with a less biased viewpoint The confidence in whether it is an intuition or not comes from how quickly they happen because they clarification needed are instantaneous feelings or judgments that we have surprising confidence in 17 page needed Philosophy editBoth Eastern and Western philosophers have studied intuition The discipline of epistemology deals with the concept Eastern philosophy edit In the East intuition is mostly intertwined with religion and spirituality and various meanings exist in different religious texts 18 Hinduism edit In Hinduism various attempts have been made to interpret how the Vedic and other esoteric texts regard intuition For Sri Aurobindo intuition comes under the realm of knowledge by identity He describes the human psychological plane often referred to as mana in Sanskrit as having two natures The first being its role in interpreting the external world parsing sensory information and the second being its role in generating consciousness He terms this second nature knowledge by identity 19 68 Aurobindo finds that as the result of evolution the mind has accustomed itself to using certain physiological functions as its means of entering into relations with the material world when people seek to know about the external world they default to arriving at truths via their senses Knowledge by identity which currently only explains self awareness may extend beyond the mind and explain intuitive knowledge 19 69 71 He says this intuitive knowledge was common to older humans Vedic and later was superseded by reason which currently organises our perception thoughts and actions and which resulted in a transition from Vedic thought to metaphysical philosophy and later to experimental science He finds that this process which seems to be decent clarification needed is actually a circle of progress as a lower faculty is being pushed to take up as much from a higher way of working clarification needed 19 75 He says that when self awareness in the mind is applied to one s self and to the outer other self this results in luminous self manifesting identity jargon and the reason also converts itself into the form of the self luminous jargon intuitional knowledge 19 72 20 19 7 Osho believed human consciousness is in a hierarchy from basic animal instincts to intelligence and intuition and humans being constantly living in that ambiguous conscious state often moving between these states depending on their affinity He suggests that living in the state of intuition is one of the ultimate aims of humanity 21 Advaita vedanta a school of thought takes intuition to be an experience through which one can come in contact with and experience Brahman 22 Buddhism edit Buddhism finds intuition to be a faculty in the mind of immediate knowledge Buddhism puts the term intuition beyond the mental process clarification needed of conscious thinking as conscious thought cannot necessarily access subconscious information or render such information into a communicable form 23 In Zen Buddhism various techniques have been developed to help develop one s intuitive capability such as koans the resolving of which leads to states of minor enlightenment satori In parts of Zen Buddhism intuition is deemed a mental state between the Universal mind and one s individual discriminating mind 24 Western philosophy edit In the West intuition does not appear as a separate field of study but the topic features prominently in the works of many philosophers Ancient philosophy edit Early mentions and definitions of intuition can be traced back to Plato In his Republic he tries to define intuition as a fundamental capacity of human reason to comprehend the true nature of reality 25 In his works Meno and Phaedo he describes intuition as a pre existing knowledge residing in the soul of eternity and as a phenomenon by which one becomes conscious of pre existing knowledge He provides an example of mathematical truths and posits that they are not arrived at by reason He argues that these truths are accessed using a knowledge already present in a dormant form and accessible to our intuitive capacity This concept by Plato is also sometimes referred to as anamnesis The study was later continued by his intellectual successors the Neoplatonists 26 Islam edit In Islam various scholars have varied interpretations of intuition often termed as hadas Arabic حدس hitting correctly on a mark sometimes relating the ability to have intuitive knowledge to prophethood Sihab al Din al Suhrawadi in his book Philosophy Of Illumination ishraq from following influences of Plato finds that intuition is knowledge acquired through illumination and is mystical in nature he also suggests mystical contemplation mushahada to bring about correct judgment 27 Also influenced by Platonic ideas Ibn Sina Avicenna finds the ability to have intuition is a prophetic capacity and he describes intuition as knowledge obtained without intentionally acquiring it He finds that regular knowledge is based on imitation while intuitive knowledge is based on intellectual certitude 28 Early modern philosophy edit In his book Meditations on First Philosophy Descartes refers to an intuition from the Latin verb intueor which means to see as a pre existing knowledge gained through rational reasoning or discovering truth through contemplation This definition states that whatever I clearly and distinctly perceive to be true is true 29 this is commonly referred to as rational intuition 30 It is a component of a potential logical mistake called the Cartesian circle Intuition and deduction says Descartes are the unique possible sources of knowledge of the human intellect 31 the latter is a connected sequence of intuitions 32 each of which is a priori a self evident clear and distinct idea before it is connected with the other ideas within a logical demonstration Hume has a more ambiguous interpretation of intuition Hume claims intuition is a recognition of relationships relation of time place and causation He states that the resemblance recognition of relations will strike the eye which would not require further examination but goes on to state or rather in mind attributing intuition to power of mind contradicting the theory of empiricism 33 Immanuel Kant edit Immanuel Kant s notion of intuition differs considerably from the Cartesian notion It consists of the basic sensory information provided by the cognitive faculty of sensibility equivalent to what might loosely be called perception Kant held that our mind casts all of our external intuitions in the form of space and all of our internal intuitions memory thought in the form of time 34 Contemporary philosophy edit Intuitions are customarily appealed to clarification needed independently of any particular theory of how intuitions provide evidence for claims There are divergent accounts of what sort of mental state intuitions are ranging from mere spontaneous judgment to a special presentation of a necessary truth 35 Philosophers such as George Bealer have tried to defend appeals to intuition against Quinean doubts about conceptual analysis 36 A different challenge to appeals to intuition comes from experimental philosophers who argue that appeals to intuition must be informed by the methods of social science citation needed The metaphilosophical assumption that philosophy ought to depend on intuitions has been challenged by experimental philosophers e g Stephen Stich 37 One of the main problems adduced by experimental philosophers is that intuitions differ for instance from one culture to another and so it seems problematic to cite them as evidence for a philosophical claim 38 Timothy Williamson responded to such objections against philosophical methodology by arguing that intuition plays no special role in philosophy practice and that skepticism about intuition cannot be meaningfully separated from a general skepticism about judgment On this view there are no qualitative differences between the methods of philosophy and common sense the sciences or mathematics 39 Others like Ernest Sosa seek to support intuition by arguing that the objections against intuition merely highlight a verbal disagreement clarification needed 40 Philosophy of mathematics and logic edit Intuitionism is a position advanced by L E J Brouwer in philosophy of mathematics derived from Kant s claim that all mathematical knowledge is knowledge of the pure forms of the intuition that is intuition that is not empirical Intuitionistic logic was devised by Arend Heyting to accommodate this position it has also been adopted by other forms of constructivism It is characterized by rejecting the law of excluded middle as a consequence it does not in general accept rules such as double negation elimination and the use of reductio ad absurdum to prove the existence of something citation needed Artificial intelligence editThis section needs expansion You can help by adding to it June 2021 Main article Artificial intuition Researchers in artificial intelligence are trying to add intuition to algorithms as the fourth generation of AI this can be applied to many industries especially finance 41 unreliable source One example of artificial intuition is AlphaGo Zero which used neural networks and was trained with reinforcement learning from a blank slate 42 unreliable source In another example ThetaRay partnered with Google Cloud to use artificial intuition for anti money laundering purposes 43 unreliable source Business decision making editIn a 2022 Harvard Business Review article Melody Wilding explored how to stop overthinking and start trusting your gut noting that intuition is frequently dismissed as mystical or unreliable She suggested that there is a scientific basis for using intuition and refers to surveys of top executives which show that a majority of leaders leverage feelings and experience when handling crises 8 However an earlier Harvard Business Review article Don t Trust Your Gut advises that although trust in intuition is understandable anyone who thinks that intuition is a substitute for reason is indulging in a risky delusion 44 Intuition was assessed by a sample of 11 Australian business leaders as a gut feeling based on experience which they considered useful for making judgments about people culture and strategy 45 Such an example likens intuition to gut feelings which when viable clarification needed illustrate preconscious activity 46 Honours editIntuition Peak in Antarctica is so named in appreciation of the role of scientific intuition for the advancement of human knowledge 47 relevant See also edit nbsp Philosophy portal nbsp Psychology portalArtistic inspiration Brainstorming Common sense Cognition Clairvoyance Cryptesthesia Deja vu Dual process theory Extra sensory perception Focusing psychotherapy Foresight Inner Relationship Focusing Grok Insight Intuition and decision making Intuition pump Intelligence analysis Trained intuition List of psychic abilities List of thought 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Robson Martin Miller Peter 2006 Australian elite leaders and intuition Australasian Journal of Business and Social Inquiry 4 3 12 Retrieved 13 June 2022 all respondents therefore found intuition as very important to their effectiveness as leaders Pinizzotto Anthony J Davis Edward F Miller Charles E III 2004 02 01 Emotional rational decision making in law enforcement The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin Essentially Goleman and LeDoux feel that people often perceive danger signals and can begin to initiate responses to them before becoming consciously aware of them This preconscious recognition of danger and how humans can react appropriately to it have been explained by several authors Intuition Peak SCAR Composite Gazetteer of AntarcticaFurther reading editChauran Alexandra 2012 So You Want To Be a Psychic Intuitive Llewellyn Worldwide ISBN 978 0 7387 3065 3 Chopra Deepak Orloff Judith 2005 The Power of Intuition Hay House ISBN 978 1 4019 0622 1 audio a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint postscript link Davis Elizabeth 1989 Women s Intuition Celestial Arts ISBN 978 0 89087 572 8 Fradet Pierre Alexandre 2014 Derrida Bergson Sur l immediatete in French Paris Editions Hermann ISBN 978 2 7056 8831 8 Hoeflich Christine 2008 What Everyone Believed A Memoir of Intuition and Awakening Between Worlds Publishing ISBN 978 0 9796589 0 7 Levin Michal 2001 Spiritual Intelligence Awakening the Power of Your Spirituality and Intuition Coronet ISBN 978 0 340 73394 3 Mayer Elizabeth Lloyd 2008 Extraordinary Knowing Science Skepticism and the Inexplicable Powers of the Human Mind Bantam ISBN 978 0 553 38223 5 McTaggart Lynne 2008 The Intention Experiment Simon and Schuster ISBN 978 0 7432 7696 2 Saad Ezechiel 1991 Hasard et intuition in French Paris ISBN 2 85076 438 8 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint location missing publisher link Schulz Mona Lisa Northrup Christriane 1999 Awakening Intuition Harmony ISBN 978 0 609 80424 7 Wilde Stuart 1996 Intuition Hay House Inc ISBN 978 1 4019 0674 0 audio a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint postscript link Wilde Stuart 2000 Sixth Sense Including the Secrets of the Etheric Subtle Body Hay House Inc ISBN 978 1 56170 501 6 External links edit nbsp Wikiquote has quotations related to Intuition Nobel prize winner Daniel Kahneman Video on Intuition Nobel prize winner Daniel Kahneman PDF on Intuition Ask Philosophers Question on Intuition and Rationality A special issue of the journal Psychological Inquiry dedicated to the topic of intuition Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Intuition amp oldid 1203292912, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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