whilst we often feel that all knowledge is based on intuition, people’s intuitions can be conflicting
our intuitive beliefs about things might be very unreliable, and one definition of education would be the debugging of human intuition
many intellectual breakthroughs are the result of intuitive flashes – after serious hard work in respective fields
TERMS: apathy, debugging intuition, emotional colouring, emotive language, empathy, intuition, James-Lange theory, primary emotions, rational fool, romanticism, social emotion, stoicism
Play with this link. How important do you ‘feel’?
This very simple video introduces some of the main themes we shall be looking at: