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intuition

Submitted by alexa09 on Tue, 03/27/2007 - 9:34am.

 

If intuition is defined as one guessing another person’s decisions, then intuition can be explained by the brain. The brain can analyze different factors and come to a reasonable conclusion on what the person will decide. It is possible for the analysis to done subconsciously and therefore it is as if someone is “intuitively” coming to a conclusion. However I am not dismissing the possibility that there is something like a seventh sense (seventh b/c we have 5 senses- smell, tough, sight, taste, hearing, orientation in space aka proprioception). How do we explain when parents sense there is something wrong with their child and call them to check on them to find something indeed has happened?

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