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September 29th 2005, 02:39 AM
Lurkala
The book "The Gift of Fear" describes the difference between the true fear than informs intuition and the false fear fomented by societal expectations of situations.
Women often have so much fear of walking alone at night that they are unable to recognize the difference between a valid fear and their normal false fear of walking alone. The false fear makes it difficult for the intuition to get accurate information from the environment. The false fear gets processed in along with the real fear and the truth is obscured.
In the cases the book talks about, the rational mind had no way of knowing the situation, and the processing definitely happened completely on a subconscious level. According to the psychologists who interviewed the subjects, that is... but of course you would know more about psychology and the function of the mind than they do because you're an Objectivist.
Women often have so much fear of walking alone at night that they are unable to recognize the difference between a valid fear and their normal false fear of walking alone. The false fear makes it difficult for the intuition to get accurate information from the environment. The false fear gets processed in along with the real fear and the truth is obscured.
In the cases the book talks about, the rational mind had no way of knowing the situation, and the processing definitely happened completely on a subconscious level. According to the psychologists who interviewed the subjects, that is... but of course you would know more about psychology and the function of the mind than they do because you're an Objectivist.
