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  A comment on Conversation: What is the source of intuition?

  Jul 25 2012: I want to thank everyone who contributed to the question and allowed all to express their thoughts. My next adventure into the TED world will be in the ideas section. Should be interesting. Best to all!
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  A reply on Conversation: What is the source of intuition?

  Jul 25 2012: Thank you Don. I started it knowing I really did not need an answer to the question. I also tried to stimulate the conversations without injecting too much, to allow all to share their thoughts. Thank you for contributing and I look forward to seeing you in more conversations here on TED.

• A reply on Conversation: What is the source of intuition?

  Jul 21 2012: Morgan,
  Yes, those are certainly representative of intuition. My problem is I am a foodie and I fail to accept my intuition when it says 'Eat that spicy food and it will be a rough night!
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  A reply on Conversation: What is the source of intuition?

  Jul 21 2012: True that Richard. And sometimes the universe decides it does not want to knock and comes barging right on through and we have no choice but to answer LOL

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  Jul 21 2012: Shahyar
  The mind is a vast repository of history and experiences and yes, I agree that our intuition pulls from memory. What fascinates me is that our brain has the capacity to pull together historical data of events along with the senses, thoughts, and emotions associated with that, based on some intuitional trigger. I took a driver’s test not long ago and it talked about overdriving the headlights...meaning you pay attention to what you can see in the headlights and drive and prepare to act based on that. In an analogies way, do we think in the near term (what we can see) while our brain uses our senses to continuously scan ahead (to what we cannot directly see) and triggers the memory processing. Is intution nothing more than a fundamental program of environmental surveillance and triggers? Help me out folks, I am having a difficult time framing my thoughts on this one and I know a few of you understand where I am going with this.

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  Jul 21 2012: Tanka,
  We do indeed 'host' our own intuition and some people are more in tune in identifying it. I had to think a little on your phrase "For now...". Interesting. Given the advances in technology do you foresee a day when we will have technology generated intuition? Can you or anyone here in the discussion point to any current technologies that might be headed in that direction? What about some of the gaming technologies that generate graphic indicators of intuition (algorithms)?

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  Jul 17 2012: Andrea,
  What a very well written and thought through response to my initial question. The second paragraph in your response resonated with me, at least. It encapsulates my current belief and level of awareness on the subject, reinforced through all the wonderful responses people have contributed in this conversation. I spoke with an individual on the subject today and he referenced life ‘information’ (not just genetic) being exchanged from mother to baby in the womb, at the molecular and structural level. Your second paragraph aligns with that. Yet your closing paragraph, at least in how I read it, contradicts in some ways so I thought I would think through it out loud (posting here). I might be getting off track but I believe that a baby does know how to smile in the womb at a given level of development based on the life information exchange…and baby learns about happy and sad in organic and intrinsic ways based on the physical and emotional environs felt by the mother and the chemical changes that occur in the mother because of, or as a result of that. Now, it does sound logical based on your response and of the others here that the source of intuition, could precisely be a mother, who gained it from their mother while in the womb, who gained it from their mother while in the womb, and so on and so on. To the original source? Now we move into the BIG question...of which I will not even touch LOL. Did I just consume a minute portion of digitial storage capacity on TED servers to repeat what you already stated LOL.
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  A reply on Conversation: What is the source of intuition?

  Jul 14 2012: That my friend means a place of perfection and purity of truth. Does such a place exists wtihin us? I believe so...or it is my hope that it does.
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  A reply on Conversation: What is the source of intuition?

  Jul 14 2012: Random. I think you just hit the target!

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  Jul 14 2012: Well for someone with limited english knowledge you did exceptionally well in writing your response. Maybe, you have the righ level of knowledge, free of word clutter that convolutes a good conversation (yes I have clutter...can you tell?) Well done Udo!