Intuition as a way of knowing
Our brain is a combination of the conscious and the unconscious. The conscious mind is only a fraction of our total brain capacity and the unconscious mind fills the rest. The four ways of knowing presented by the IB are all based on our conscious mind whose mechanism is known to a certain extent. However intuition, memory and imagination are part of our unconscious mind whose functioning is not yet proven till date.
Memory is the function of storing and recalling information gained from experience. Whereas, imagination is the process of forming new ideas or concepts of external data not present to our senses. For a notion to be proposed as a way of knowing, it needs to have the ability to gain and judge knowledge as well as make reliable decisions to an extent. According to me, the notion of intuition can be proposed as a way of knowing because it reliable enough to make certain decisions.
Intuition, as I see it, is the ability to know something immediately without any apparent rational process. It is a process of thinking without actually thinking; it is a gut feeling. When I asked my friends about their opinion on intuition, all they say is “I know something, but I don’t know how I know it.” Generally based in emotions, due to its nature as a sense of knowing within one’s self, intuition doesn’t really fit nicely into any of the four traditional ways of knowing. It isn’t an emotion, nor is it based upon reasoning, language, or perception. It is a special way of knowing which cannot be distinctively explained, but occupies the place which other ways of knowing cannot. Intuition is simply a device on its own and despite it being used as a way to justify knowledge and being in close relation to awareness, intuition acts strongly on its own as a way of knowing and as such should be introduced as one. Intuition forms the fundamental base of most of the knowledge as well as natural human reflex. As a human being, I find myself really intuitive. I rely on my
Memory is the function of storing and recalling information gained from experience. Whereas, imagination is the process of forming new ideas or concepts of external data not present to our senses. For a notion to be proposed as a way of knowing, it needs to have the ability to gain and judge knowledge as well as make reliable decisions to an extent. According to me, the notion of intuition can be proposed as a way of knowing because it reliable enough to make certain decisions.
Intuition, as I see it, is the ability to know something immediately without any apparent rational process. It is a process of thinking without actually thinking; it is a gut feeling. When I asked my friends about their opinion on intuition, all they say is “I know something, but I don’t know how I know it.” Generally based in emotions, due to its nature as a sense of knowing within one’s self, intuition doesn’t really fit nicely into any of the four traditional ways of knowing. It isn’t an emotion, nor is it based upon reasoning, language, or perception. It is a special way of knowing which cannot be distinctively explained, but occupies the place which other ways of knowing cannot. Intuition is simply a device on its own and despite it being used as a way to justify knowledge and being in close relation to awareness, intuition acts strongly on its own as a way of knowing and as such should be introduced as one. Intuition forms the fundamental base of most of the knowledge as well as natural human reflex. As a human being, I find myself really intuitive. I rely on my