[ExI] reason and intuition

[William Flynn Wallace]

I'll ask y'all for opinions, since I made this Quora answer up. I based it
on my knowledge, but I went further than that and want opinions on it.

Reason and intuition are different and separate words, but the processes
aren’t. Intuition comes from the unconscious and mixes in with whatever is
in your conscious mind at the time, which also has unconscious input.

Now the conscious ego has to put it all together and come up with
something. If you can put it all together with words, then we usually call
it reason. If you often can’t explain your decisions you call it intuition

Intuition is often a first and quick thing, and is fairly often wrong or at
least incomplete.

Answer 'Can you trust your intuition?' - you can’t trust any of it. Take a
look at wikipedia and search for ‘cognitive biases and errors’ and you will
find dozens of them, all common. One of the most common ones are to assume
that your reasoning is valid or your intuition is always true.


bill w
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