intuition

"The moment of critical importance is the moment pointed to by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the moment of insight. For millennia, one can see the sun rise and never notice the rotation of the Earth. We can wake each morning for 60 years to the glow of the dawn and never see light.

Why? Because one rushes past the immediate offerings of the senses to what we suppose to be the hidden, enduring primary substance of reality. The habits of our culture, the dogmas of our education constrain our sight. Knowledge is not an object to be traded like chattel, but an epiphanous moment to be cherished." - Arthur Zajonc

Eureka! Neural Evidence for Sudden Insight

A Sufi once knew, through intuition, that a city would shortly be attacked by an enemy. The Sufi told his neighbor, who realized that he was a veracious but simple man, and who advised him: 'I am sure that you are right, and you should go and tell the monarch. But, if you want to be believed, please say that you divined it, not by wisdom, but by astrology. Then he will act, and the town may be saved.'

The Sufi did so and the townspeople were delivered through the correct precautions being taken.

"Because it is difficult to observe the shape of things when one is within their midst, individuals coming to some sense of themselves from within this superorganism, from the center of the zeitgeist, must develop a kind of intellectually ri...gorous intuition to peel apart the symbolic structures and to prevent slipping under hegemonic control, and it is this expansive intuition which magic develops in the course of dedicated study." - Edward Wilson & Wes Unruh

Intuition is defined as:

instinctive knowing which

includes conscience or the moral sense

an impression that some thing might be the case

subconscious thought breaking through into conscious thought

a sense of some thing not evident or deducible; an impression

knowledge gained by the use of this faculty; a perceptive insight

any object or truth discerned by direct cognition; especially, a first or primary truth; usually felt as an epiphany

the act or faculty of knowing or sensing without the use of rational processes; immediate cognition

direct apprehension or cognition; immediate knowledge, as in perception or consciousness; - distinguished from 'mediate' knowledge, as in reasoning; as, the mind knows by intuition that black is not white, that a circle is not a square, that three are more than two, that a triangle has three sides, etc.; a quick or ready insight or apprehension.

Epiphany is defined as a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience.

"Evolutionary biology lends support to a realist perspective about an important part of reality: that part of which the correct apprehension is advantageous. Many of those apprehensions do not merely give us advantages over others who possess them to a lesser extent: they are necessary conditions for the continued existence of any form of living complexity." - John D. Barrow

Rene Descartes regarded intuition as much more mutual than commonly thought. Intuition has special associations with individual knowledge and especially with self knowledge. The idea of a direct, unmediated form of knowledge, a mental vision or intuition, has a long philosophical history.

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