ricksfolly
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The traditional five senses are sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste, a classification attributed to Aristotle.[2] Humans are considered to have at least five additional senses that include: nociception (pain); equilibrioception (balance); proprioception and kinaesthesia (joint motion and acceleration); sense of time; thermoception (temperature differences); and possibly an additional weak magnetoception (direction)[3], and six more if interoceptive senses (see other internal senses below) are also considered.
Because it's an internal cognitive process.Why is intuition not part of those senses?
Because it's an internal cognitive process.
I think that is half of it.
What's the other half?
Why do you think this?I think there is definitely a metaphysical interaction that can happen with intuition, and that it's not always cut and dry cognitive-process. Sometimes it is though, for sure, and I don't disagree that cognition plays a role. But I do believe that a sort of spontaneous ESP is possible which relays information that you in turn act upon, even if you aren't sure where it came from.
Why do you think this?
Fair enough. I haven't been convinced that things like ESP exist. From what I've experienced, and what I know about things like confirmation bias, subconscious thought etc. there isn't enough evidence for me to think It's true.My experiences.
My experiences.
To me, intuition is sharp observing. Example: If I'm going to get on an elevator, and there's a man on there that my intuition tells me could be some kind of problem or danger to me, I'll take another elevator. Yeppers, one might call that intuition.
But what is more likely going on is that I subconsciously noticed little things that all added up to T-R-O-U-B-L-E. It might have been the way he was standing....or how he looked at me when I went to board the elevator...or how he didn't look at me...the tilt of his head...the light in his eyes.
Body language is an excellent people-reader. Most of us do that alllll day long as we interpret others in our environment. Some people have an uncanny ability to put these signals together -- even in a heartbeat, as with my example. It's in our genes, an important skill for survival.
Cognitive? Maybe partly. But I think intuition is mostly a subconscious process.
Of the human seven senses, the ones most necessary for survival are sight, hearing, feeling, touch, and equilibrium. Taste and smell are just icing on the cake.
With a little help you can survive without sight and hearing, as Helen Keller and others have shown, but they still needed touch, feeling, and equilibrium to walk and move about without falling down.
With none of the seven senses functioning, could you survive with the right kind of help?
ricksfolly
I think there is definitely a metaphysical interaction that can happen with intuition, and that it's not always cut and dry cognitive-process. Sometimes it is though, for sure, and I don't disagree that cognition plays a role. But I do believe that a sort of spontaneous ESP is possible which relays information that you in turn act upon, even if you aren't sure where it came from.
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