Each time you encounter in an argument the “but”, transcending reason, it’s usual stronger than the reason. It refuses dialog proper to reason, it transcends your sense of values. ‘But’ is Zen, it doesn’t impose a solution, it only declares: “I don’t know why, I only know that your solution is unacceptable.” It’s in the twilight zone of intuition that the difference between us and the intelligent machine manifests itself. ‘But’ is quantic, indefinable. It will never be at the service of one idea because an ultimate solution doesn’t exist; … Read More
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Intuition & Reality?
Me — old and young, rich and poor, wise and fool, loner and social, universal and detached, free and prisoner… Struck blind and deaf, emigrating from myself, I took the pathway to intuition.
I paint, I write, and simultaneously the mystery reveals itself through my invisible partner; there are two of us, as I discovered in my old dream. Apparently, one takes on himself the chains of reality, the second one acts in the domain of the unknown (intuition). Remember that what you create is, in the first place, a … Read More
Rational Thought, Intuition
“Maybe people with the discipline to think more rationally are not as drawn to (the high-IQ) societies as the intellectual eccentrics seem to be.”
Editor of “Oath Journal”
In my opinion, rational thought and the imagination/intuition are not good bedfellows. So, what one wins in rationality may be lost in creativity. Rational thought, disciplinarian as it is, rejects a priori what cannot be explained rationally. Each discoverer, pioneer of new thought, had to overcome at one stage, the fear of the ridiculous.
Everybody probably knows the apparently true anecdote about … Read More