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Lance Watson
@lwatsonjr · 3:25

Instincts can be incorrect. Can we trust them,…at all?

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We could talk about the span of a lifetime and the subconscious leading us towards outcomes that we have experienced in the past without a conscientiousness or a full consciousness, that we're sort of reliving a similar circumstance than that we've gone through before. But that's not so much what I'm trying to get at with this question trying to get at why do we, as human beings rely on our gut so much?

Consider the idea that #instincts can often be incorrect. Question: Why do we default and rely on them so much? #decisions #discernment

@aShamaninJourny

Instinct or Intuition? 🙏🏽

And a lot of times we want to control things. We want to know for sure. And so we tend to lean towards facts and absolute constructs of ideas to secure us, provide safety, maybe. Thank you for creating the space. Really interesting topic. But if you could, could you clarify? Maybe we got it twisted, but just clarify if this gut feeling you're referring to is not instinct and maybe it's intuition or maybe you meant instinct, it in a different way
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Lance Watson
@lwatsonjr · 5:00

@The3rdOWL: We are (sometimes) birds on power lines. Is there a difference between how we respond/decide (instinct) and how we intuit?

As human beings, we think that animals don't possess a consciousness, or many people do. I won't say everyone, I won't generalize that way. But in the description, I put there birds on power lines and I'll draw the parallel, though as ungraceful as it is, I would draw the parallel between human beings and birds. A human being being, like the bird, may perceive something familiar that, hey, this is a similar circumstance
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Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15

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@aShamaninJourny

Time | Choices | Instincts | Unconscious & Conscious 💭 | Access: Human Experience

We're not even using the full expansion or the full weight of our capability. So in a moment, putting time into the factor, how much information can you really possess in a moment? That's why with memory it's so interesting how you could forget something here but remember it another time. Did you at all ever not have the information or did you not have access to it? But technically it was always there
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