People are often able to make correct decisions based on kind of a “gut feeling” but will arrive at a different, incorrect conclusion when trying to make that gut feeling conscious. How does that work? Why do I sometimes hear the response of a person I know well in my head before they actually say it, but when I consciously try to guess what they’re gonna say, I almost always get it wrong? Looking for a psychological explanation here, I know there are lots of spiritual ones but I’m agnostic so I’d probably end up just being even more confused by those.
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I think it is your mind guiding you by using micro amounts of information that you observe from your environment but aren’t really aware of. Like stuff your brain puts at the back of the priority list of what to pay attention to, but tiny bits of data about your situation leak through anyways and I think it might instinctively guide your actions as a survival mechanism and you wouldn’t be able to process why. Thus, you would just have a feeling or urge that one choice is better than another or that something is going to happen – which is what I have always took intuition to mean. But that is just what I think is most likely. Im not a psychologist, I am a philosopher, but we ask many of the same questions. I’ve wondered about this a bit myself and these are only ideas.
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