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This is a facinating subject doctor Janice. To me intuition is a factor in my trading decisions. I don't know the science behind it, and I don't solely rely on it. But I respect it. I heard there are cases of people whose photographic memories are so accurate that they have trouble recognizing the same people because of the minor changes in their appearance. Perhaps a task of the subconscious mind is to processes various quantitative signals, but in order to protect us from being overwhelmed by them like the example above, it gives us the results in a qualitative intuitive feeling. Perhaps another need for intution is the high amount of energy which is consumbed by quantitative task as opposed to qualitative tasks, energy which was not always so abundant in our species' evolution. Or perhaps humans are linked to other humans, animals, or to the universe in a collective subconscious and our intuition is a result of information gathered from this connection. |
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This is a very powerful and thoughtful post, Abe. The way the brain is constructed, there are two main pathways for processing decisions. One is rapid and emotional and is the limbic or rat brain. It is largely subsconscious and intuitive or instinctive. The other is the new brain--the cerebral cortex.
This is analytic, non-emotional, logical and linear. The rat brain is a very fast processor and can completely take over the new brain-- especially in situations where one is bombarded with large amounts of conflicting information ( eg, during the trading day). Under these circumstances, the new brain "defaults" into the rat brain and the decision is made based on emotion. It is only later, perhaps in quiet, down time or in sleep when the new brain is has time to think about what the old brain has done without thinking.
What do you think?
Thanks!
Doctor Janice