Is Intuition in Decline?

[Faun147]

Does the scientification and quantification of everything in the 20th/21st century come at the cost of intuition?

I was thinking that one factor could be the pricing of things. Rather than having an intuitive understanding of value, we have "$20.00."

Also, could the increasing demand for precision cause an intolerance to ambiguity?

Finally, what could this mean about art and creativity?

[Holiday20310401]

I agree. Nobody takes kindly to ambiguity anymore, such fun, especially in writing. Using the word gauge in a paragraph so that all nine of its meanings can be coherent in any of their contexts is a fun challenge, and when the reader realises the possibilities it can drive the person mad .

And in this sense, it is creativity, art is meant to be interpreted in a variety of ways, otherwise it isn't art in more than one's mind.

But I don't see science having any implications to cause this. Science is techinal and precise, there is no equivocation in how much potassium iodide you inject yourself with to stop radiation poisoning. Either the right amount or you die. Science is meant to contrast from art. It's not engulfing society to an extreme yet. But the ingenuity in my opinion is going to need many gradients of many minds to start producing huge acheivements soon.

So no I do not believe intuition is in decline, people nowadays just don't have insight into it because their intellect is not trained in such a manner to produce such thinking at school..

[Heligan]

Is it necessarily a bad thing if intuition is in decline? Isnt intuition just schema driven thinking, that leads to belief?
Creativity seems to me to be much wider than intuition, more a sort of stretching of schema.
If we can see that there is a difference between creative thinking and beliefs; surely that is a good thing for logic and creativity.

[Whoever]

Hi Faun147

I think you ask an interesting question. I ran a business for many years and spent much of it dealing with people who could not cope with ambiguity and intuition and who were not running businesses as a consequence. Creativity is vital to entrepreneurship, and it is suffocated when a person thinks ambiguity and intuition are less important than facts and figures.

Intuition is difficult to define but it might be argued that without it we could not even know we are conscious, since we have no way of knowing this in philosophy or physics.

I would say that our powers of intuition are declining for the reasons you give. Use it or lose it is the general rule.

[Alan McDougall]

Faun,

Intuition in my opinion is not in decline, although it is much less needed in our present world.

Intuition is just an accepted word used by those who do not like the term psychic.

Alan

[Heligan]

I think we need to try to define what we mean by intuition.

Are we referring to a feeling that you cant really explain about what you think is a good idea or true?
If we are isnt this just the same as instinct; its not necessarily creative, it just reflects what our particular mix of past experiences make us feel is valid. In that respect its schema.

The trouble with intuition is it can be biased by culture etc I suppose we could say phobias and racism are intuitions, just as much as thinking that a particular item miht sell well in your shop. religion is also very dependaent on intuition.

Of course its not that all intuition is bad. I read an interesting book a while ago called 'Blink' that examined intuition based judgements, in which cases they work and in which they dont.

I think what I am saying is that intuition cannot be indecline, because it how the brain works; but total unquestioning acceptace of every intuition can be in decline- and that may or may not be a bad thing depending on the urgency of the situation.