In article <[log in to unmask]>, Declan Fox
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>-except
>that Balint-like flash you get after about three minutes when you just know
>that all efforts are doomed to failure.
In a personal discussion with John Sanfey he referred to intuition as a
moment in Chaos.
There is a concept in Chaos called self-organization (Prigogne and
Stengers 1984) where a stable dynamical system can be pushed into
instability by an external energy which can, at some distance from
equilibrium re-organise itself into a different stability. This is often
typified in Chaos by the Beluzhov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction, which is a
chemical reaction, aided by a catalyst, which can exist in two states
oscillating in a sudden and discontinuous fashion.
I believe that the Balint-flash is a similar phenomenon, a moment of
intuition where the instability caused by new information reacts with
your own knowledge and sometimes self-organises into a new state
providing the flash of intuition. Your description is similar except
that the initial input was not the family background but probably no
more than a look or a single word, or even some minimal cue you picked
up on. Being intuitive however, all you have is this single piece of
'knowledge' without any formal back-up or explanation which cannot, of
course, stand up against the whirlwind of misinformation, aggression,
selfishness and sometimes plain stupidity directed against you.
Kati'es description of her state of unreasonable terror which she
dissociated from her daily work of extremely capable handling of
uncertainty is probably a similar situation. I bet it took no more than
a half-remembered phrase, tone of voice, colour of envelope etc which
changed her normal ability into her terror.
Its a thought. I think JS was right.
Regards
George
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