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Mazzie Daius
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People demonstrate the reality of intuition by their objective performance in everyday activities. Having a conversation is a complex activity. You can't think about what you want to say and how to say it at the same time that you would think about the grammar of what you say and whether the sense n which you use 99% of the words you use is appropriate. Ergo, intuition: The faculty of knowing or understanding something without reasoning or proof.Intuition
1. The faculty of knowing or understanding something without reasoning or proof.
We understand each other, and to achieve this, we have somehow to infer the meaning of what people say as well as of what they don't say. You don't perform this very complex activity through any conscious reasoning. Ergo, you use your intuition. Intuition is a fact of our mental life.
Most of the intuitions we have relate to what we have trained ourselves to understand. Intuition in this case is only possible if we have trained our brain into the domain concerned. However, the case of logic is different. You don't have to train yourself. Logic is entirely intuitive.
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Bolded is unsupported and a step too far. All the rest is barely within bounds. Actually most of it is just about as unsupportable as is the bolded bit.
For instance demonstrating intuition by objective performance ... kind of a yada hada there. What objective performance which daily activities. Always just a bit too rational without actually being justified with data and empirically validated.
Your stuff goes on and on. I won't bore with repeating since I know by you performance in this post you know what is missing for your argument to empirically sound.
Really. All you have to do is use properties of neural tissue to communicate, filter, adjust and integrate, et cetera all of which have been empirically validated in neuroscience journals over the past approximately two hundred beginning with Weber. From the current results of those investigations it becomes abundantly clear that intuition is a product of cognitive reflexive conditioning.
Never mind invoking something called a mind. It's as shopworn and useless as is intuition.
You have no point. All the anchor terms you use so cleverly are invalidated by those two hundred years of neuroscientic study and progress.