[ExI] reason and intuition

[Gordon Swobe]

On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 8:42 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> 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
>
This reminds me of the philosopher Davd Hume who said reason is a slave to
the passions.

"Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never
pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them."

-Treatise on Human Nature, David Hume

-gts
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