How do you define your "gut" or "intuition"?

Question

We claim to have an ability to intuit knowledge. As people are hurt emotionally, physically, etc. the evidence suggests that our "intuition" or instincts are not accurate.

As requested:

If we have intuition or instincts to avoid danger, we wouldn't find ourselves in accidents. I can provide government statistics on injury.

If we have intuition or instincts to avoid harmful people, we wouldn't have situations of rape. I can provide national statistics on rare.

If we have intuition or instinct to avoid dangerous situations, we would have no need for emergency health services.

I hope I made myself clearer.

Perhaps I use instinct differently than those who are answering. Instinct is considered to be inborn patterns of behaviour. For example, when a fish returns to a spawning ground, this is generally not considered something that the fish has a choice over.

Answer 1

a keen and quick insight

Answer 2

First of all, your statistics are irrelevant, because while many claim to have experiences that they would call intuition, I doubt any would claim that every bad or dangerous incident (e.g., rape) can be intuitively detected beforehand. Some people have certainly avoided danger by heeding their intuition, but that does not mean that we can expect an intuitive red flag to go up every time danger is near the way we can expect there to always be a cloud in the sky when it is raining.

To clarify what intuition is, I don't think that there is any kind of sixth sense that people have to alert them to things that their normal five senses cannot detect. Rather, what we usually call intuition is simply an attention to detail. When I sense "intuitively" that a person is dangerous, that feeling comes from normal sense data, but the data are so small and trifling that I am reluctant to draw a conclusion from them, so I instead credit the sense to intuition.

For example, if there is a man standing next to me who stands just a little bit too close to me, has a creepy cunning look in his eyes, appears to be trying too hard to seem friendly and harmless, etc., I might feel the need to distance myself from him, even though the signs of danger were so small that another person might not have noticed them at all.

This isn't a matter of having no empirical evidence, but rather having very small pieces of evidence which a person could easily regard as insufficient.

Answer 3

Not enough people follow their prevailing thoughts. I feel that your "gut" or "intuition" resides in knowing yourself. Most people ignore these feelings they have because maybe it contradicts what they want or think they "should" do because of social norms or pressure. Consequentialism may also factor into people's reasoning. (Though, if more people followed that ethical thought process we would have less problems so.... I guess thats irrelevant)

There are a lot of reasons why people make their choices. Natural instinct may not be accurate for all situations, as you clarified, but your natural inclination that underlies the rest of your thoughts/reactions has to mean something. We have this innate ability. No other creatures have the ability to rationalize...
Our "instincts" help us to look upon a situation and have an immediate reaction- whether we choose to follow it or not, that's up to each person to decide for themselves.

Answer 4

I define intuition as this invisible sense in me that causes me to act without having to think on the situation. Being an intellegent person, my intellect and wandering mind may complicate my judgement and make things worse, and anyways, 95% of the time, I don't have the time to think out every pro and con to a situation. But some wish to rely purely on logic, and ignore their intuition until their gut feelings quit trying to communicate to them. The intuition is basically the will to survive and thrive, and anything that may be against that may set up a red flag in the intuition. If you turn your back on this sense, then the rapists and murderers you describe can easily fool their victims logic in the way they dress or act.
So, intuition works, but intellect, innocence, and our so-called logic cloud that inner voice that could save us.

Answer 5

How do "I" define gut/intuition?

ok let me try to build this up,

imagine that our brain is like a bare table when we are born,
and our experiences of the world are like little blocks of clay that vary in colour and can be molded,

now imagine that on this table when we are born is also a wire mesh, every persons wire mesh is shaped slightly different.

as we gain experience we mold the clay blocks onto the mesh,

we are also born with a hammer, the hammer has the ability to bend the wire mesh.

in this story the clay is our knowledge, the wire mesh is our intuition and the use of the hammer is our wisdom.

Answer 6

Fair share is enough to pay the cost of living and not living in financial servitude. How many jobs does a con think the working class needs to pay their bills? The cost of everything is skyrocketing. Why should a working family have to live in eternal debt? You cons think we are whiny, lazy and selfish . Try it for a few years, you might get it. I'm all for a working mans economy. We pay each other a fair wage and not try to suck the life out of American families. Maybe someday it will come to that. I won't do business at all with the evil and greedy rich.

Answer 7

It is in my opinion that our so called "intuition" can be accessed consciously or unconsciously but is sometimes blocked, clouded, or coloured by our emotions. Intuition in many cases is considered to be a psychic phenomenon and since it is an abstract concept, I think it comes down to a matter of faith. Also, human logic and rationalization could also attribute to any inconstancy's as far as your data is concerned.

Answer 8

I try to follow a very simple feeling within - either something I do or decide for feels good, or it doesn't. If it feels good, I continue that path, if it doesn't, I return and choose the path that feels good.

I wouldn't say our intutition isn't accurate, rather we are guided into situations which we learn from. Only when we learn, we can make progress.

Answer 9

When people are hurt emotionally or physically it means that they are not following their gut or their intuition. I gauge mine by my feelings. If a thought or idea makes me feel good, I follow it. If it makes me feel bad, I don't. Whether or not you feel good or bad about something is very clear, but only you can define what feels good or bad, positive or negative for yourself. It's an individual thing.

Answer 10

Your "gut" or "intuition" is the Holy Spirit that dwells in all believers. The Holy Spirit gives us the gift of discernment.

Answer 11

pls add your so called "suggestive EVIDENCE" in additional details pls.

Your so called "suggestive evidence " seems to be completely meaning less and i dont think intuition has anything to do with predicting future.

Your MOR seems to be "Distorted."