Intuitive

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perceiving directly by intuition without rational thought, as a person or the mind. perceived by, resulting from, or involving intuition: intuitive knowledge. capable of being perceived or known by intuition.

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Intuition, a phenomenon of the mind, describes the ability to acquire knowledge without inference or the use of reason. The word "intuition" comes from Latin verb intueri translated as consider or from late middle English word intuit, "to contemplate".

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If you're intuitive, you can probably guess what this word means just by looking at it. No? Maybe you're not so intuitive, after all. Intuitive means having the ability ...

I was going to go to intuitivefred888 on a different computer, my son's, who left it here because it is a huge IMAC (a 24 inch) that he left behind when he moved the last time for a teaching job. My wife's computer is getting old (a 2006 IMAC) that my son put on 1.5 terrabytes of memory which is why it has done this well this long. However, a friend got that computer for us who owned and Apple STore then and also got our HP Printer, scanner, which is also working quite well still too. However, viruses have finally been the temporary or permanent demise of my wife's computer after 8 years.

So, this might be a good reason to get an IMAC because yours might last this long too if you want it to.

So, anyway, I thought people should likely better understand what being intuitive means.

For example, I believe Einstein was first intuitive. In other words he visualized himself riding a beam of light through the galaxy at the speed of light. Later, he realized this might be important to mathematically categorize for posterity so he did. Luckily, he was a mathemetician at the time and also a physicist.

So, I guess what I'm saying here is we might not still have E=MCsquared as a formula from which atomic energy as a bomb and as a nuclear power plant or even space travel itself depended upon for success.

So, in a way I equate intuition to why people got into philosophy and asking questions in the first place. People usually start with realizing something intuitively and then start asking questions about it. From this comes philosophy and eventually scientific hypotheses, theories and laws. 

Most of what scientists can prove now, philosophers and metaphysians and priests and ministers started asking questions about thousands of years ago now.

So, in this sense the human race would be nowhere at all without intuition, philosophy and science.

Religion is also in there somewhere as long as it doesn't enslave people to stop being free thinkers so they can progress so their children and their children can actually find a useful way to survive on into the future. 

So, I would define intuition or being intuitive as knowing things before most other people do.

This is a very useful survival tool and having at least one person like this in each tribe of people in ancient times often meant the difference between everyone dying in that tribe or that tribe staying alive through anything.

This is still true today by the way.