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The working mechanism of intuition

שו”תCategory: generalThe working mechanism of intuition
asked 7 years ago

Hello Rabbi Michi,
You claim (if I understood you correctly…) that the more a person studies and engages in a certain field, the greater his or her talent for intuition, which is a kind of “gut feeling” that guides the person to the correct insight.
Do you have a theory of how the property of intuition occurs in the soul? (Just an example that occurred to me: As one repeats lines of thought with certain logical components, the soul becomes accustomed to working in this way, and when one encounters a particular thought that does not fit with this mindset, one feels that “it does not fit.”)
Thank you very much.

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מיכי Staff answered 7 years ago

Yes. It’s like computer systems learning. Experimentation and wondering build the system in a way that it gives correct answers and interprets correctly. These are processes well known in computer science and neuroscience.

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