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