The Science and Thought of "Intuition" - What it is and How it Works

A video response to Xomniverse concerning - the science and thought behind intuition entailing: what it is, and how it relates to knowledge and emotion.

Response Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTieA27Yugo

Article on Gary Klein and his studies on intuition: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/38/klein.html?page=0%2C1

Gary Klein's book - Sources of Power How People Make Decisions: http://books.google.com/books?id=nn1kGwL4hRgC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepa...

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[Gettinghitonattheban]

What about the fight or flight instinct? Is it possibly that after failing to fight the fire, he ran?

[AnarchistPhilosopher]

@Gettinghitonattheban

The commander didn't just run outside of the building, he deliberately ordered all of his men to evacuate and then they all evacuated the building.

[Sasuke90000000]

Really cool how God created the brain to do this huh.

[asajol]

A wonderful concept! Thank you ... It shows also, perhaps, that survival favours the experienced.

[curesriches]

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[skinnylugnuts]

This is truly an excellent video.

[thinedoor2]

Interesting definition of intuition, a phenomenon often discredited due to its more common association with nebulous mysticism. As defined in the video, it's still an instantaneous and (initially) irrational process, but it's determined by a discrepancy in sense-experience, and if it's results from a response to stimuli that's incongruous with past responses, it reflexively inspires the person to question why the familiar conditions aren't summoning familiar reactions.

[sharingan3600]

I think the problem with Intuition is that we can't know for sure if we are really right, while in the first example you used, we can think about the solution using the reason, and decide if we are really doing the right thing, even by doing that we are susceptible to take wrong decision and fail.

It is curious that we only know that something was really a intuition when are right, for example, If the firefighter left the house and nothing happened, he wouldn't call that intuition.

[sharingan3600]

6:40 lol! ahaha.

[sitemountain]

This reminds me of a similar case I heard about in the UK. A fire chief was fighting a fire where his men were in the building with their hoses. He intuitively felt there was imminent danger & ordered them to withdraw. Once he'd done this the building exploded so the men would have been killed. It looks like this was precognition i.e. a supernatural phenomena. But it wasn't...

[sitemountain]

It is known that prior to explosions a subtile suction of air passes into buildings. The fire chief didn't register this consciously but consciously. It did not 'feel right' (literally). The intuition was not precognition it was an unconscious perception of air flow which seemed unusual as it didn't match previous experiences & seemed 'wrong' & therefore worrying.

[BrutusCass]

Very interesting and well explained point.

Tnank you