Mar 11 2013: It's a fact. All funded projects, especially the exploratory type, are financed by someone, foundation, government, etc., who expects a return on their investment. Only a very, very few would give you the money without a tied-in agenda. With these types of exploration, it's the later waves of explorers that does the exploiting.
Mar 11 2013: While it was wonderful to see the wide variety of life that exists under the sea, I am very disturbed by the narrator's suggestions that there's a host of life down there that can SERVE humanity, to be exploited for man's use for economic gain. Am I the only that heard that? How much you want to bet that there are people out there now hunting that giant squid for their own foolish exploit? Is there anything we humans can enjoy for the sake of what it is and not apply our economic death to that thing? We need to understand that human nature being the destructive force that it is are gain driven. What the purpose of that exploration if it has no financial-end incentive? Really, what haven't we ruin in any segment of our world? With "funded" projects there is a "sell-out" point--what the investors get for funding the exploration. And that's when all hell breaks lose for the other kind. The narrator's comment is clear, though some people tried to soften its meaning: Economic gain, whether it's medicine, bio-tech., food, etc., means death to that thing we used to serve us! We don't need to take from all other life to fix the problems we created for ourselves. Thumbs down on her presentation. I hope the squid lives a long life far away from humans! Run Forest-Squid, run!!!
Nov 24 2012: I commented that I have not yet defined what intuition is and I think once I put my finger on identifying what it is, I'll have a better understanding to guide my response to it. I think, not yet believe but close, intuition is the supreme, up to the six-sense level of *knowing*. It is not thinking faster, or computing something clearer; it is instant known. From my perspective what you're describing is the thought process: we will always compute something quicker than verbalization of our thoughts. Verbalization, in fact all expressions and actions come later behind the thought. The only things we don't think about before doing are habitual things and that's because we have learned it already and have imbedded those actions into our physical behaviors. Intuition in the truest form would also be able to prevent you from doing the wrong thing too, should it? If it is a true gift beyond the limits of our minds then it should work for everything, not just the back end, the after-knowledge; I would hesitate calling the experience you described as intuition. I am not saying you don't have intuition, just that what you describe is not it; what you stated is more a cognizant evaluation.
There is a problem on over reliance on anything--to be human is to have faults; perfection is not in our genes. Overconfidence is in ones character, a part of ego. You have to check that on a personal note no matter what state of brain power one has. If your *feelings* are coming after the fact in situations when you are "wrong" then I wouldn't be too confident as your intuition did not correct or helped your actions to be "right" to avoid the wrong. I think in a lot of your cases what you experienced are after thoughts, computed analysis of all that transpired for evaluation. Now, if you said your intuition has helped you in making a lot of right decisions, then over reliance on that special gift might be a problem.
Nov 24 2012: I think we need first come to an agreed consensus on the definition on what intuition is. Is it an emotional thought, an intellectual thought, conscious or subconscious; is it learned or innate? Is intuition six sense? Do other animals have it or just the human species? Do every human have it, or just a few? Is a form of intuition thinking at its optimum state? I have not yet definitively defined it. I have not yet determined whether it is the culmination of all my harbored knowledge, experiences, and emotions operating in a post heighten state or it is something in the paranormal as an added gift in the gene, like artistic skills. Is intuition a formulated projection of personal knowledge or it is an external energy/force like the wind that comes at you through powers that are beyond your control? You pose methods to "train" and develop intuition; base on this effort you must have an understanding on what intuition is. I like to hear your concept.
Nov 23 2012: And he has good reasons too. My concern falls in perfect alignment with Kam's; in fact I believe the gov't already using these types of word tag software--the only thing Jonathan did was make it unique with graphics. I personally don't think you're aware enough to know you should keep an eye on your civil liberties as they get peeled away more and more.
Nov 23 2012: Doesn't the nsa use the same kind of software to spy on the Internet? This software does what all search engines do, only Jonathan put graphics to it--giving the words a sort of a face but the matrix seems to be the same as any search engine. I see the corp., gov't, advertisement, businesses using this software more purposefully to target Internet clients more than an individual's occasional curiosity.
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