Super-intuition Science
Super-intuition in life and in science You surely know the situation when you have to accept an important decision, but, just because of its vital importance, cannot choose one of several options. The indeterminacy may continue for a long time, often many days, causing painful feeling of helplessness and despair. It is impossible to stop continuous fruitless thinking on the problem that again and again goes inthe same circle of reasoning but gives no result. How to stop this endless thoughts, how to choose one of a number of solutions avoiding fatal mistakes? The answer is amazingly simple. You should briefly survey your reasoning once more and completely stop thinking on this problem.
In order to take mind off the subject, it is helpful to make something pleasant, may be simply go to cinema or theater. The decision will come unexpectedly, accompanied by the delightful feeling that it is the only right one. Future experience confirms that this decision is in fact the best of all possible options. Here are two bright examples of such situations. A diver who is going to make a record of the depth of submergence without apparatus experiences great danger at the moment when he/she reaches the maximum depth and turns backward. He/she has to choose the moment of returning in such a way that to achieve as deeply as possible but have enough time to achieve the surface. Returning a little bit later may mean death. How to make right decision in this critical situation? The experienced sportsmen (sportswomen) tell that before this critical moment they sink into a sort of trance and make the choice of the returning moment in the unconscious state.
The other example occurred with Russian cosmonaut Grechko. He experienced the off-nominal situation on his return on the Earth in one of his cosmic trips. The min engine was down and he had to turn on the small subsidiary engine with restricted resource. Then he had to turn it off in the manual mode so that his cosmic apparatus began slowly descend in the regime of free fall. wrong choice of the moment of turning the engine off could lead either to heavy landing or to staying the apparatus on the orbit without chance to land. Grechko had no way to calculate the right time, but he chose it intuitively and avoided both dangers. The choice was made in great emotional tension, and it is most probable that the cosmonaut was in the state of trance.
How and why this happens? Why right solutions of the most important problems are found instantaneously and without any grounds for these solutions? The short answer is that the decision is chosen in these case by intuition. However, the well known word ‘intuition’ denotes in this case a strange ability of our consciousness, the ability of direct vision of truth.
The intuitive solution of the problem happened to be in this case valid just because it has been not a simple guess but the direct vision of truth The same phenomenon takes place also in case of “scientific insights” when an unexpected solution of a scientific problem (or a principally new direction of thinking on the problem leading to the solution) is found not by rational reasoning but as a simple guess having no logical ground. Of course, the guess of this type comes only after the scientist was systematically working on the problem by usual rational methods and thus clearly formulated the problem in the scientific terms.
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