The Secret Of Intuition
Can Human Intelligence Be A Process?
The process identifies subtle patterns. Science confirms that pattern recognition has been used for millions of years by nature. Science uncovered this clue to the process (Nobel Prize 2004) - the way you recognize the smell of an orange. From a pattern of air molecules, your mind creates an idea in your mind. Imagine that ideas are precisely coded patterns of nerve impulses, which enter your awareness as thoughts.
Patterns of radiation engulf us. Science suggests that a ten billion degree sea of particles existed just one second after the big bang. Imagine that those patterns are precisely ordered. Actually, their inter-relationships have been consistent from the beginning of time. The speed of a
photon has an unchanging relationship to the passage of time.
Science does not know if such relationships existed before the big
bang.
But scientists have found them to be stable across billions of
years of time. They define those consistent relationships as axioms.
An axiom is accepted without proof. Consistency across time is the
only proof of their truth. Truths and lies are themselves ideas
about the connections between patterns. Imagine that our thoughts carry ideas
which express the universe of relationships in the firmament.
The idea of democracy is a patterns of social interaction. You know "democracy" differs sharply from "dictatorship." You can recognize the difference just as you can recognize a twitch in your toe. A "twitch" too is an idea. Democracy can be defined with one combination of alphabetic characters. Combinatorial firing by nerve cells were discovered to define odors. Combinatorial codes could store memories of millions of odors. Imagine that our minds store trillions of varied ideas in codes. Imagine that intuition is an algorithm, which instructs nerve cells to fire if they recognize a combinatorial code. Think of intuition as a logical routine, an algorithm, which enables your brain to recognize a smell pattern. If it can manage coded patterns, your mind can cope with the changing patterns of life. From the patterns of moving leaves and scurrying shadows, an animal identifies a predator, feels fear and takes flight.
Imagine that intuition is the routine behind each intelligent animal response. Imagine it to be a pattern recognition process. Intuition can enable nerve cells to swiftly recognize, interpret and act, by extracting logical answers from massive neural memories. Nerve cells can respond to the combinatorial codes firing at their dendritic inputs.
The Secret Of Intuition
Can You Imagine 4 Things?
Imagine 4 things to comprehend the concept of intuition. Imagine that: The brain is able to make fine differentiations between objects and events through a coded language. The structure of the brain enables global messaging in just 20 milliseconds. The coded language enables an astronomically large neural memory. An intuition algorithm enables the mind to instantly extract logical answers from massive neural memories. When you imagine that 100 billion neurons speak a common language to each other within 20 milliseconds, store astronomical memories and can find logical solutions to problems, many mysteries disappear.
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Can A Huge Memory Be Accessed Instantly?
The
unimaginable size and scale of your memory far outclasses the memory
stores of a computer. It was estimated that if the DNA codes in the human body were written
into 500 page books, those tomes will fill the Grand Canyon 50 times
over! Your brain stores memories of evolutionary experiences from
millions of years. It stores the sights, sounds and experiences of a
lifetime. It stores the memories of thousands of habitual
activities.
From
this galactic store, your brain recalls just the image of a school
picnic, or the complex hand movements of your signature - the same
moment you think about it. Imagine that your intuition is this process, which
assists you in all the problems you face in life.
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What Are The Paths Followed By Logic?
Imagine that intuition
uses logic to retrieve data. Traditionally, logic follows either
deductive, or inductive paths. All men are mortal. Socrates is a man.
Therefore Socrates is mortal. That is deductive reasoning, where an
accepted principle is used to draw a conclusion. In inductive
reasoning, a number of established facts are used to draw a
conclusion. Over centuries, all observed elephants are gray. So,
elephants are gray. An inductive argument, however, is never final
and is open to being falsified. The discovery of a pink elephant will
falsify "the gray elephant theory." Imagine that both science and
intuition use inductive logic.
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Is Reverse Reasoning Still Logical?
Traditionally,
inductive reasoning uses the principle of inclusion. The gray
elephant theory is a result of experience over time. If we see a gray
animal, we will confine our search to a list of gray animals. Imagine that intuition uses the principle of exclusion. If the animal is pink,
elephants are excluded from the search. Subsequent discovery of a
pink elephant will make this induction wrong. But, if the reasoning
that all elephants are gray is true, then the induction that a pink
animal is not an elephant is equally true. Nerve cells become
inhibited, if they fail to recognize a pattern.
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When You Dim Lights, Do You Highlight The Stage?
If
the back of your hand is touched with a felt tip, neural activity
takes place in the related touch sensory region of your cortex.
Particular neurons begin to fire to indicate this sensory
information. You will feel the touch. In the process, the surrounding
neurons will become inhibited. This inhibition is strongest for those
immediately adjacent to the excited neurons. Throughout the nervous
system there are neural circuits which switch off other circuits when
their own areas are energized. Imagine that this phenomenon reveals to you the secret of
intuition. Intuition highlights messages by inhibiting information
from non contextual sources.
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Can You Rule Out The Inapt To Identify The Apt?
Eliminating
all unrecognized categories from a list is a quick way to focus the
list on the answer. Neurons in the olfactory system store the
inherited combinatorial codes of myriad smells. Over a lifetime, an
animal adds millions more differentiated odors in codes. All cells in
the system which fail to recognize the code of an encountered odor
shut down. The active cells fire strongly to indicate the identified
smell.
Visualize a routine, which searches a massive database in the blink of an
eye. When you speak, an inhibition process swiftly combs your entire
vocabulary, eliminating every unrecognized relationship to your idea.
If it is furry, it is not an elephant. If it is gray, it is not a
rabbit. If you are looking at a gray, or furry thing, it is not this
page. If there are 100 cars, it is not your garage. Think of intuition as a process, which eliminates a galaxy of possibilities to accurately use each word,
even as you speak.
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Has Science Solved The Search Enigma?
Scientific searches seek an exact match to identify a complex pattern. Back and forth searches grow exponentially as the search space expands. For science, it is impossible to search for subtle overlapping patterns in large spaces. So they never imagined it would be possible to swiftly and instantly search the mass of data in the mind. Science continues to follow the theory that the mind is a computational device. But, the mind could be recognizing patterns, using intuition.
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Does Life Demand A Single Choice?
As someone said "When a tiger bounds towards you, what should your response be? Should you file your toenails? Do a cartwheel? Sing a song? Is this the moment to run an uncountable number of randomly generated response possibilities through the decision rule?" Imagine that inhibition works to eliminate alternatives for every decision of the nervous system. Animals cannot afford to freeze into immobility, unable decide between chewing grass and drinking water. Intelligent action, pivotal for survival, mandates a swift logic, which ceaselessly narrows possibilities down to a single answer. Nature's logic evaluates myriad known possibilities to choose one option for action. If the choice is to chew grass, the drive to quench thirst is instantly inhibited.
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Does Life Also Deliver Arbitrary Solutions?
Inhibition
delivers swift answers. Inhibition of weaker signals inhibits even
less active possibilities. This image is interpreted by your mind as
either two faces facing each other, or as a vase. Logically, it is
both two faces and a vase. Your system inhibits one idea to identify
the other. Intuition may not always deliver logical answers.
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How Does The Spreadsheet Deliver Instant Answers?
All
nerve cells are known to be active in all regions of the brain, even
when they do not appear to be actually participating. If a nerve cell
is but a single entity in a multi billion processor system, why is it
active when it does not need to process any data? Such activity is
vital for the global evaluation of the mind. Even a spreadsheet
follows the same routine. Any change in one cell is reflected in all
the cells, even if there are a million cells. This is because entries
in all cells of a spreadsheet are recalculated for each new input.
With its ability to do millions of calculations a second,
simultaneous recalculations enables the user to see the global impact
of any change. Similarly, each one of billions of cells is tirelessly
alert to events in the system, “recalculating” its inputs in the
context of its own inherited and acquired memories.
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How Many Hints Of Danger Does A Militant Need?
Intuition
finds answers from even slivers of data. For a militant hiding in a
cellar, the movement of a few hairs could indicate a current of cold
air from a stealthily opened door. That is a vital message, which
will inhibit every other sensory input. Instant elimination of
possibilities from a database of cosmic proportions would trigger his
immediate recognition of danger. Unexpected meanings are derived for
a soft whisper or a shifting shadow. With access to vast data,
intuitive recognition needs imperceptibly small slivers of
information to enable recognition.
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Is Human Wisdom Inherited, Or Acquired?
Learned
and inherited combinatorial memories can explain the incredible
swiftness of animal motor controls. When a motor neuron fires to
contract a muscle, the neurons of all opposing muscles become
inhibited to avoid conflict. Each motor neuron also has up to 20,000
feedback/feed forward links with 60,000 other motor neurons. For
coordinated movement, each motor impulse must follow evaluation of
20,000 other neuron decisions. This happens up to 10,000 times a
second. Think of intuition as the swift process of recognizing the right
combination (Nobel Prize 2004) of the 20,000 inputs from other
muscles, which causes each motor neuron to fire or be inhibited. Consider intuition to be the intelligent recognition of combinatorial
patterns.
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Why Is Confidence Critical?
Your
mind has immense knowledge, stored as coded answers from myriad
evolutionary and real life experiences. With such global access, the
system swiftly evaluates trillions of pages of that wisdom to locate
competent answers. But, to win, you need to be aware that you are so
equipped. That self assurance is crucial. The eliminative search
process wisely discards “impossible” solutions from its search.
If you think it is impossible, you will not think of it. It is
confidence, which can prevent many winning solutions from being so
excluded. Confidence is the key to a good life. Listening to
intuition delivers the wisdom of your mind.
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Why Does Intuition Offer A Blinkered View?
But,
the elimination routine has its limitations. From the extensive
knowledge in your mind, intuition eliminates all out of context items
to reach an answer. If something you know does not suit your
current emotion,
that data is also eliminated at the outset. Your mind eliminates all
data linked to conflicting emotions. It narrows possibilities to the
answer, which is appropriate to the current emotion.
If
you are angry, it eliminates all positive views of your opponent. You
have no awareness of such elimination. For you, the reduced list of
possibilities is the truth. So, emotional decisions become
irrational. Because of this emotional weakness of intuitive wisdom,
science has founded its vast structures purely on clearly defined
reasons.
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Are Reasoning Chains Better Than Intuition?
The
structures of science are built on definitions and reasoning chains.
But, intuition can be incomparably superior to reasoning chains for
pattern recognition. So many things known to scientists can never be
explained through reason. Analytical logic cannot assess a great
painting, or comprehend passionate poetry. It cannot identify between
charm and dignity, or contempt and enmity. Scientific knowledge, is a
mere subset of what is known to intuitive wisdom.
Intuition can be
just as often wrong as scientific reasoning. But it girdles a wider
horizon and is an incredibly powerful weapon for coping with the
environment. Ultimately, it is their intuition, which enables
scientists to build reasoning chains. This clue to the secret of intuition was published in 1989. Almost three decades ago. This website alone has had over 2,000,000 page views from over 150 countries. Yet, the massive significance of the idea has not percolated into the scientific community. Mainstream science is yet to evaluate this idea, which turns their current theories about the mind upside down.