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Sensing things

Submitted by clin on Tue, 03/27/2007 - 12:33am.

How does one explain intuitions? Why is it sometimes when an incident occurs a person will say, " i knew that was coming" or " i had an inkling something like that was goign to happen" Is this intuition a legit process of the brain's sensory system or is it just a phenomenon that we can't explain? The book Blink delves into " thin-slicing", and it got me to think that maybe all this intuition feelings are just daily thin slicing that people have accustomed themselves to but are just unaware. How much of what we sense is actually psychological or really a sixth sense?

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