Intuition

The existence of intuition is a controversial topic. Many argue that our lives are mainly guided by emotion and sense perception, but based on personal opinion, I beg to disagree. I do think that it exists and is separate from emotion and senses.

Sure, emotion and sense perception do play a significant part in our lives, but intuition is different. When our intuition kicks in, it is and instinctive feeling and understanding. This feeling occurs when we consciously know or assume something with no real justification. I believe that we can use intuition as a way of knowing, because these instinctive feelings are a result of acquired knowledge that is remembered. If one has learnt and remembered how deadly a shark or a bulldog can be, then it becomes of intuition to run away (or swim away) if they see one approaching. It is closely linked with the idea of emotion, although, of course, there is no emotional aspect of the situation.

They are two fairly similar ideas. They both refer to the feelings that a person has under a given circumstance, but intuition is distinguished by knowledge, whereas emotion is entirely independent of previously acquired knowledge. That explains why new born babies may use emotion over intuition.

Intuition plays a part in our daily life. Many decisions can be made using intuition, or, in other words, basing your decisions on general knowledge of the issue previously acquired. 

Senses

The first way of knowing discussed was sense perception. There are 5 main senses that are considered in most cases:

1. Hearing
2. Touch
3. Smell
4. Sight
5. Taste

I've decided to place these in order of their importance in my opinion, based, as well, on the consensus that we reached when asked to do the same in groups.

1. Sight
2. Hearing
3. Touch
4. Smell
5. Taste

The reason for the order coincides with the way I essentially define the purpose of the senses to be. I basically state that they are key aspects of survival. This puts into the perspective of the importance of sight. What are we without sight? It may enhance other senses, but imagine how dangerous life would be without sight.You can't taste a 1000m cliff ahead of you.... You can hear it though. This puts emphasis on the idea of the loss of one sense enhancing another. Some people are trained to see with sounds they make that reflects off the objects around them. This also puts into perspective the lack of importance that taste has when it comes to survival.

These senses are the main ones, although there are others, all of which we discussed in class, that can as well be considered senses:

- Thermoception (sense of temperature)
- Proprioception (kinesthetic sense)
- Nociception (sense of pain)
- Equilibrioception (sense of balance)

They should also be considered senses, as they are, again, key aspects of survival. They help us survive and stay away from danger in everyday life.

WOK of Maths

In class, we were given an Area of Knowledge, for which were asked to list the Ways of Knowing in order of importance.

AoK: Mathematics

1. Language
The most important because the basis of maths had to be communicated through language for us to understand it in the first place. Maths can also be described as a language in itself.

2. Reason
Although maths is argued to be an idea created by humans, it is reasonable. Everything can be justified with reason.

3. Memory
The basis of maths, such as numbers, adding, subtracting, etc, are never forgotten, because they are, again, the core of every else. They are used in many forms throughout maths topics. This requires memory.

4. Intuition
What you do does eventually become natural.

5. Imagination
Sometimes maths requires you to think, and manipulate equations in different ways which requires imagination to some extent.

6. Faith
You have faith that you're going to pass.

7. Emotion
If you pass, you smile.
If you fail, you cry.