{"id":5236,"date":"2016-11-22T14:01:22","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T19:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/?p=5236"},"modified":"2016-11-22T14:01:22","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T19:01:22","slug":"on-intuition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/general\/on-intuition\/","title":{"rendered":"on Intuition"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We spend years learning to suppress our instincts,<br \/>then more years teaching our children to suppress theirs.<\/p>\n<p>Why do we do things we regret?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; C.G.Ayling (@CGAyling) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CGAyling\/status\/800812990874447872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 21, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h6>We spend years learning to suppress our instincts, then more years teaching our children to suppress theirs. Why do we do things we regret?<\/h6>\n<p>Many scientists say we have &#8220;intuitions&#8221; all the time, however since they are usually wrong and we don&#8217;t like admitting we&#8217;re wrong even to ourselves, we forget them. They believe that only occasionally are our intuitions proven correct, therefore when that happens we tend to remember and emphasize them.<\/p>\n<p>I say nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have intuitions often, but when I do I am always very very aware of them, and they are virtually never wrong. Indeed, I think they are never wrong, though sometimes I cannot know whether they would prove true as I listen to my gut and either get out whatever situation invoked them, or entirely avoid whatever it was that raised the hackles on the back of my neck. Unfortunately I sometimes ignore my intuition, which is when regret comes into play.\u00a0 In an attempt to understand what caused them, I also tend to analyze them afterwards. Seldom do I find definitive answers.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Is intuition arcane nonsense we are better served without, or do we have senses other than the scientifically defined five?<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I&#8217;m inclined toward the latter.\u00a0 Oh, and yes &#8211; I did use the plural, &#8220;<strong><em>senses<\/em><\/strong>&#8220;, not the singular &#8220;<strong><em>sixth<\/em><\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>We like to simplify things because doing so lends itself to easy understanding. But things are seldom as simple as we make them seem&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We spend years learning to suppress our instincts, then more years teaching our children to suppress theirs. Why do we do things we regret? Many scientists say we have &#8220;intuitions&#8221; all the time, however since they are usually wrong and we don&#8217;t like admitting we&#8217;re wrong even to ourselves, we forget them. They believe that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[215],"class_list":["post-5236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-intuition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}