Reddit mentions of Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious

This seems reasonable. So you seem to be adopting a Huemer type view of intuition for a particular reason and in a particular situation. You're saying that sometimes it is prudent to not reflect on our intuition. Namely, those times when the intuition is sufficient (even if suboptimal).

This reminds me of Gerd Gigerenzer's view about intuition and other heuristics.

EDIT2: I'm reposting my original comment because the last one was removed. I think the reason it was removed was because I used a link shortener for the amazon links. Anyway, here's the original comment, now with really long motherfuckin URLs.

I've been lurking on this sub for quite a while under a number of accounts and I'm constantly surprised that so few people here are familiar with Gigerenzer's work. He's made a lot of progress undoing the damage done by Tversky and Kahneman's Heuristics and Biases Program and I think anyone intrinsically interested in human rationality will immediately see the value of Gigerenzer's work in this regard. The paper I linked is a must read for anyone who is familiar with T&K's work and might be wondering how the narrative that they constructed could be described as "damaging" to society.

EDIT: Just hijacking my own comment to list a few book recommendations. From another comment:
>> A book not written by someone unaware of the existence of computational complexity and Bayesian statistics

>Man, Gigerenzer is the motherfucker for which you're looking. One of the books I've listed below could be right up your alley. The first is a textbook, but mostly because of its density, rather than difficulty. The other three are a bit more tailored toward people with less background knowledge but you might still prefer one of those if the content sounds interesting. Lots of people enjoyed "Risk Savvy", but I'd choose the one with a table of contents that speaks to your interests.

Heuristics: The Foundations of Adaptive Behavior

Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious

Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions

Rationality for Mortals: How People Cope with Uncertainty

My INTP and INTJ book recommendation would be Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious by Gerd Gigerenzer. It’s a book about intuition from the perspective of a psychologist and neuroscientist. There might even be a Ted talk by the author. Read it as the author is a strong believer in the power of intuition which Jung claimed was “perception via the unconscious”.

>You seem to be looking for an external answer when in can only be discerned internally.

Odd then that you are trying to use an external method to explain something that can only be discerned internally. Odd that you are trying to use reason to explain that reason is no good for understanding this. "Me and Jesus got our own thing going here."

Of course I understand that this "feeling" thing is compelling. Reason tells us in fact that people will rely on feeling above reason for important decisions. Nevertheless, this state of "feeling" (heart if you like) supports myriads of religions and subsets of religions.

You need to use reason though to see that other people's religious "feelings" are not the same as yours. In addition they are no less (or more) valid than yours. That is the point of "Of course you don't see it my way..."

There is no basis for supposing that your "feeling" is any more correct then someone else's other than it is your "feeling" the only one you personally can feel directly. It therefore must be right. Now you have to step out of that a bit if you want to discern another person's "feeling" is not the same as yours and never will be mainly because they are not you.

>You're right because the proof is only in your heart.

That's right. My proof is in my heart and your proof is in your heart. But the proofs will not be the same because the hearts are not the same. You are willing to grant authority to your heart but not grant authority to the heart of another unless it appears to agree with yours. I say appears because it will never actually agree. This is why religion is necessarily subjective and can never be objective even if it is about an object.

So my point that the Jews would view Jesus according to their own religious "feelings" rather than though the scriptural interpretations that your "feelings" consider correct. It doesn't matter what the text says it matters what the interpreted "feelings" say. For the Jews of Jesus time that feeling said, "nope, this isn't the guy!" And I say those "feelings" were as valid as yours.

>Really? Then why did they drop everything and choose to follow him. They also followed him before he did any miracles

Because they felt like it. If they just knew who Jesus was they wouldn't have had to be discipled by him, would they? Read the story. The disciples weren't on board until Acts. Judas never did get on board. Remember Thomas?

>It was because it was revealed to him by the spirit of God. That being, In your heart, not your head.

And I believe the OP wondered why everyone doesn't get such a revelation? In any case 999 times out of a thousand an experience such as this will be interpreted by the recipient as reinforcing his own religion. Occasionally it will start a different take in someone or even a different denomination or religion if the recipient has enough charisma to infect others with the new meme.

>II. None of the other religions...

Christianity is not the only religion with a risen god man. It is the only just the only remaining viable one. Even if this resurrection is fact, which I doubt, it is irrelevant. In addition it doesn't further your argument since "feelings" are more important then facts. Believe it or not people in other religions are not impressed by this resurrection.

By the way the other gods are not still dead. Lots of them never died to start with. In any case only one third of your god died and then only for about 40 hours.

>Christianity is based on Faith in a redeemer, which is a gift from God which cannot be earned.

If this is the case I don't see how a Muslim or a Hindu would have any reason to believe you.

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