Intuition
Richard Hillwww.richardhill.com.au
Knowing the Unknown
In TuitionIn Sight
Below the threshold of emotional relevance
or Non-verbally expressible ‘perceptions’
orConsciously (reflectively) aware
Language – visceral to verbal
1. Focus – attention to a single element
2. Relaxation – to allow activity and accessibility to obscure associations
Mark Jung-Beeman & John KouniosNorthwestern University Drexal University
Henri Pointcare – realised a seminal insight in Euclidian geometry while boarding a bus.
Richard Feynman physicist would frequent a topless bar and wait for inspiration to strike.
1. Focus – attention to a single element
2. Relaxation – to allow activity and accessibility to obscure associations
Pre Frontal CortexRight Anterior Superior temporal gyrus
Mark Jung-Beeman & John Kounios
The conductor of neural activity
Activates the search for information even when distracted by other tasks
Earl Miller MIT
Unusually active about1 second before awarenessOf an insight
Jung-Beeman & Kounios
Medial Pre Frontal Cortex
• Body regulation
• Attuned communication
• Emotional balance
• Response flexibility
• Empathy
• Insight
• Fear modulation
• Intuition
• Morality
Daniel SiegelThe Mindful Brain42-44
Joydeep Bhattacharya (London)
steady rhythms of Alpha waves - 8 seconds
bursts of gamma waves (parietal cortex) – 1 second
Aha!
knowl.edge.o.cep.tion – the process whereby the stimulus of a new piece of information or knowledge (which includes facts, opinions, experience, emotions and body awareness) triggers a range of interactions with existing elements of knowledge, creating expanded perceptions that exceed the sum of the parts. Initially felt as a flash of insight, these interactions establish new, neural integrated systems which form deeper understanding, broader awareness, stronger convictions, additional unrelated thoughts, new world views and, ultimately, a deeper and wider scope of wisdom.
AHA!
Knowledgeoception
Two Communities
Automatic Systems
LTP
Mind
A process that regulates the flow
of energy and information
Mindset
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Winner/Loser WorldCreative World
Hypothesis
8 DIFFERENCES• Exclusion• Events• Instruction• Competition• Result• Probability• Transaction• Arrogance
• Inclusion
• Lessons/Opportunities
• Information
• Inspiration
• Outcome
• Possibility
• Interaction
• Confidence
7 DEMONS
• Right & Wrong
• Good & Bad
• Expectation
• Fault & Blame
• Criticism
• Isolation & Separation
• Guilt
7 BENEFITS
• Hugs
• Gentle talk
• Listening
• Laughter
• Co-operation
• Achievable tasks
• Love & Kindness
6 Practices
• That’s interesting• The problem is a message• What can I create with that?• Tell me everything in your
head• The priority triangle• Random inspiration
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Challenging Pressure
Free Won’t
• Benjamin Libet (1970’s & 80’s)
• Finger lifting experiment
• 500ms
Imprinted Memoryamygdala
Mirror Neurons
Iacoboni and Dapretto Redgrave Nature Reviews Neuroscience 7, 942–951 (December 2006) | doi:10.1038/ nrn2024
Superior Temporal Sulcus - visual input
Pre Motor Cortex
Inferior Frontal Gyrus
Inferior Parietal Lobule
PF/PFG - macaque
Conscious awareness
Emotional relevance –
from visceral to verbal
PROPRIOCEPTION
NOCICEPTION
NEUROCEPTION
KNOWLEDGOCEPTION
KNOWLEDGEEmpirical
FactualIntuitive
PerceptiveConceptual
KnownUnknown
TRANSFORMATIONAL
Self monitoringPre Frontal Cortex