Making DecisionsWritten by Judi Singleton
Because we lack understanding about intuition we often do not trust it as a decision making too. The phenomena we call "common-sense" "sixth-sense", "inspiration", "gut-feeling",may all be same thing. Likewise, what we call "intuition" may actually be more than one phenomena. Each instance of "intuition" could involve any of a number of thought processes, some reliable and others not. At same time, it seems likely that at least one of procedures we classify as "intuition" would be a subconscious application of predictive deduction. Perhaps what we call intuition is in fact experience, others experiences, like what we have read in a book, mass consciousness, like what anyone has ever thought about this. Jung called this collective unconscious. Here is a creative exercise to access your intuition: Alternative Scenarios Scenarios are developed specifically for a particular problem. To begin developing scenarios: State specific decision that needs to be made. Identify major environmental forces that impact on decision. For example, suppose you need to decide how to deversify your funds in order to be positioned for opportunities that might emerge by year 2010. The major environmental forces might include social values, economic growth world-wide and international trade access (tariffs etc.).
| | Let James, Your Chauffeur, Take You ThereWritten by Abraham Thomas
Let James, Your Chauffeur, Take You ThereYou took James for granted. Actually, he was not very well known. But, recently, with a new view of mind, James became an important member of cast. In this view, mind was like a lightning streak, racing through many neural regions, surging through from input to output, within just 20 milliseconds. It saw, recognized, interpreted and acted. In blink of eye. According to The Intuitive Algorithm, (IA), a new book, this lightning response of mind was powered by intuition, a pattern recognition process. Myriad processes converted light, sound, touch and smell instantly into your nerve impulses. A special region recognized those impulses as objects and events. The limbic system, another region, interpreted those events to generate emotions. A fourth region responded to those emotions with actions. The mind perceived, identified, evaluated and acted. So, scream followed eerie shadow, in a fraction of a second. Action was response to an emotion. If fear was generated, action sought safety. A deer bounded away. A bird took flight. A fish swam off. The frenzied escape of animals were managed by James, invisible chauffeur, a subconscious intelligence. Consider challenges before James. Escape was hardly possible by heading into predator. Below conscious levels, James remembered, evaluated and instantly chose best of multiple escape routes to increase distance from danger. Even safety of underside of a rock was an option. James even managed many components of your actions. He responded instantly, when you responded to emotions, such as sorrow, or humor. James managed racking sobs of sorrow, or relaxing movements of a belly laugh. For IA, wisdom and folly of of mind were powered by nerve cells, which remembered and recognized. Millions of years of neural memories powered that streak of lighting. Science suggested participation by supplementary motor area, premotor area and basal ganglia in subconscious processes, managed by James. His wisdom enabled animals to survive. James helped them to forage, feed and reproduce. He even guided birds to build nests, selecting secure locations and suitable materials. James even placed limits on your will. Normally, while alone in your room, your will could raise your hand. But, at other times, James ignored your will and your hand remained frozen in place. He did that if you wished to raise your hand, say, when sitting in a theater. Because that was not proper. The wisdom of James had decided issue, faster than you could think. While James often overruled you, it was nice to know that he was a powerful ally in life. James searched your memory, when you sat down to write a shopping list. He delivered list, so you could jot it down. Those subconscious searches were creative. Konrad Lorenz described a chimpanzee in a room, which contained a banana suspended from ceiling just out of reach, and a box elsewhere. After much visible restlessness, animal suddenly brightened, and joyfully moved box below banana, climbed up and reached for it. That breakthrough idea was not generated by an act of will by chimp. It was James, who discovered solution. “No man watching him could doubt existence of a genuine 'Aha' experience in anthropoid apes.” Lorenz wrote. That creative experience resulted from search of context by James.
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