What is intuition?

[killtrocity]

There are these posters around campus and on city trains and shit which say "Trust your intuition! If you see something, say something!"

So... what is intuition?

in·tu·i·tion
ˌint(y)o͞oˈiSHən/
noun
noun: intuition

-the ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning.

(I like this)

-a thing that one knows or considers likely from instinctive feeling rather than conscious reasoning.

(don't like this)



Intuition (philosophy)
From Wikipedia
Intuition is a priori knowledge or experiential belief characterized by its immediacy. Beyond this, the nature of intuition is debated. Roughly speaking, there are two main views. They are:

Intuitions are a priori. This view holds that distinctions are to be made between various sorts of intuition, roughly corresponding to their subject matter (see George Bealer). The only intuitions that are relevant in analytic philosophy are 'rational' intuitions. These are intellectual seemings that something is necessarily the case. They are directed exclusively towards statements that make some kind of necessity claim. For example, a rational intuition is what occurs when it seems to us that a mathematical statement (e.g. 2+2=4) must be true. Intuitions, as this view characterizes them, are to be distinguished from beliefs, since we can hold beliefs which are not intuitive, or have intuitions for propositions that we know to be false.

(This is good intuition)

Intuitions are a species of belief, and based ultimately in experience. This view holds that intuitions are not especially different from beliefs, although they appear subjectively to be more unrevisable than other beliefs. Unlike the previous view, these intuitions are liable to differ between social groups. Evidence for this is shown in various psychological studies (e.g. the one by Stich, Weinburg and Nichols)

(This needs to be eradicated)

Intuition (psychology)
From Wikipedia
Intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge without inference or the use of reason.

(kinda sketchy. You should still be able to articulate a truth using reason, given enough time, even if you cannot do so immediately upon gaining intuitive knowledge of that truth. Otherwise, it is merely a belief, which may or may not be true due to chance.)

[Order 66]

thinking is for pussies

[duovamp]

[duovamp]

Like, fuck.

[Bread Regal]

a cursory comparison between past experience and present experience.

[Bread Regal]

whether conscious or subconscious.

[Bread Regal]

it is still susceptible to cognitive biases.

[null123]

Intelligence

[MyOneAndOnly]

Reality is a construct of the mind

Free will is an illusion

We are all biological automatons

[FutureBoy]

god

[darby]

What gives what helps the intuition?
I know I'll know
I won't have to be shown
The way home
And it's not about a boy
Although although

They can lead you
Break or defeat you

A destination known
Only by the one
Who's fate is overgrown
Piecemeal can break your home in half
A love is not complete with only heat

And they can tease you
Break or complete you

And it came a heat wave
A merciful save
You choose you chose
Poetry over prose
A map is more unreal than where you've been
Or how you feel
A map is more unreal than where you've been
Or how you feel
And it's impossible to tell
How important someone was
And what you might have missed out on
And how he might have changed it all
And how you might have changed it all for him
And how he might have changed it all
And how you might have changed it all for him

Did I, did I
Did I, did I
Did I, did I
Did I, did I
Did I did I miss out on you?

[darby]

who's

[Lucky Day Spa]

heuristics, innit

[reprise85]

Originally Posted by Bread Regal

a cursory comparison between past experience and present experience.

Originally Posted by Bread Regal

whether conscious or subconscious.

Yeah this.

I've learned to mostly trust my intuition when it says something is wrong, and distrust it when it says something is fine. I mean, false positives are more damaging than false negatives. Maybe that is PTSD talking though.

[IAMTHEDOORWAY]

Men always ask this, but intuition is just seeing and listening, is not being blind because it doesn't agree with culture or fashion or desires. Intuition is not mystical.

[hnibos]

Originally Posted by Bread Regal

a cursory comparison between past experience and present experience.

Originally Posted by Bread Regal

whether conscious or subconscious.

Originally Posted by Bread Regal

it is still susceptible to cognitive biases.

So basically, being a person.

[Bread Regal]

the keyword there would be "cursory".

[Trotskilicious]

isn't intuition the biological programming

[duovamp]

Subconscious computation.