Intuitive thinking

 I've talked about the subconscious mind, but not from the perspective of intuition. Intuition refers to a sort of broader sense of the subconscious, even calling attention to receiving messages from outside sources. 

I read a book by a man by the name Hoffstader. His book was about strange loops, and I made a vlog yesterday that briefly touched on the subject matter. In a small way it has to do with the loose ends of language, balancing negative and positive, showing that where they intersect, there are paradoxes. I wanted so much to read the book but couldn't do it out of my poor condition ADHD. I decided to read from the book on live videos to pretend anyone cared. I care. It was given a Nobel Prize AND written in the year I was born!

I ended up reading a little bit from a chapter that let us in on the way the mind works. It did not explain outside sources, but we can look at that from a different perspective in a moment. 

Our mind uses, obviously, our senses to lead our inner world through our outer world. When we refer to our sense of sight, we are shown by Hofstadder, that a very sophisticated system which probably make use of processes used by our other senses, is used. In the brain, our eyes send instant signals, picture signals, that are run through the center of our mind. And where they have been before, they use the most relevant material by alerting any number of memories formed over a lifetime. Our brain chooses which to use by this process. So our preferences help us to make better choices per our preferences. 

I am always making use of, for instance, the little learned fact from a baby book I got when my oldest daughter was born. It said that when a child is learning a new skill, they forget the things they've mastered momentarily. This would be good to be common knowledge. It may help frustrated parents understand their children better. The other way to look at it is that when growing and branching out within the mind, our minds sort out the material as it fits to our thinking patterns. It's important to remember that while all this is happening you are making individual preferences, using outside stimulus, (think about how limiting it is to have bad parents, or how brilliant you could be with good ones!). 

But when we have grown an extensive library, our thoughts begin to process them all together, and our favorite pathways will pave the way for  our thoughts. That is why the bible is exactly right when it asks us to be transformed by the renewing of our mind. And, incidentally, you can teach an old dog new tricks.

What does that say about the intuitive mind? For one thing, it tells us that our intuitions are our instincts based on preferences. 

I have written about another book I sort of took a bite out of. It was of a Mathemitician by the name of Du Sautoy who had a chapter on mastery. It was an important thing to me because it led to the belief that, yes Virginia, there is innate intelligence. It said that, in his book on shortcuts, in his chapter on a paper written by someone else using chess champions as his guinea pigs, the mind of a person who is adept at something, and very much so, is using a different part of the mind, which draws from a well of intuitive clues about what they are doing. In other words, while the novice is trying to tinker around in their mind with little experience, the master is able to surpass them through a whole other system of triggering parts of that system. What's so interesting about that? The master is also able to do this, the very talented one, by waybof his intuitions instead of the parts others use for regular thinking. In other words, by talent they draw from another source.

What does this say then about things akin to women's intuition? Have we "mastered the art of" knowing things through our little arm hairs raising and goosebumps? Apparently,  if these things are real, then people susceptible to certain beliefs are able to use them through another means indifferent to our thoughts. This is a whole other aspect of intuition. One that leaves us at a loss for now, I'm sorry to say. But it is really interesting to think of a whole new aspect of reality which makes use of information floating into the brain by way of being important to someone, somewhere.  😀