Jason Silva on Intuition | Brain Games

what’s really interesting about
intuition is that it tends to have a
kind of metaphysical Flair variety
people talk about Toulouse having some
kind of sixth-sense tells you what to do
some kind of a serial orientation that
leads or towards a place of illumination
follow your God listen to your intuition
and your instincts but the reality is
that intuition comes from a place of the
function in the brain called what’s
referred to as the adaptive unconscious
which reminds me of Carl Jung’s idea of
the collective unconscious but the
adaptive unconscious is is sort of a
repository of experiences memories and
dreams it seems to be kind of like the
liminal zone reality and when people
talk about intuition it really means
that they’re tapping into their adaptive
unconscious and they’re probably
browsing through a series of sense
impressions and quickly making
comparisons between the current
situation of scenario and past
experiences and so on and so forth and
the kind of boundary dissolving huh
sensory dissolving synesthetic
unconscious dreamscape and then the
result is my intuition tells me I should
do this but again grounded in science
which is what makes it all the more
fascinating
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