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Post by Large Marge on Oct 5, 2023 5:44:57 GMT -5
ok this isnt for me. its for a friend. she keeps talking about her gut feelings about her feance. she cant prove any thing but she has this gut feeling he loves some one else. probably some one at work. shes not shore if shes just parinoid or if she should trust her gut. every one always says trust your gut. that what i told her. always trust your gut.
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Post by Yeti on Oct 5, 2023 8:34:40 GMT -5
I wish people would stop telling people to trust their gut. Their gut doesn't have magical powers. Your "gut" has a name, and that's the amygdala. It's a primitive part of the brain used to help animals survive in the wild. While that sounds good, it's just a means of making animals take action even if the action makes no sense and isn't necessary. It's what makes a deer run off fleeing for its life because it heard a sound and assumed it's a predator, even if it was really just a rotten tree limb falling.
The amygdala is the part of the brain that people of faith use to make decisions. It's the belief and faith part of the brain. The alternative is the insular cortex, which is a more modern part of the brain. By "modern" I don't mean recent years but modern humans, as opposed to apes or earlier. The insular cortex is more of a "show me" center. The insular cortex is more interested in facts and supporting evidence than pulling decisions from the rectum.
The insular cortex would determine that you are in danger because it sees evidence of that danger, like seeing a tiger lurking in the bushes. The amygdala, the "gut instinct" part of the brain, jumps to a conclusion, like that the sound it heard must be a tiger even though it was really a falling tree limb. Maybe that sound really was a tiger, but the amygdala doesn't care about the evidence. It just wants a response and it wants it five minutes ago.
People act like their gut instincts are always or at least usually right. This is untrue and not supported by anything but anecdotes. If our gut turns out to be right, it's more dumb luck than anything else. It can have you jump to an incorrect conclusion, and that can cause problems or even harm. In the case of your friend's gut feelings about her fiance, going with her gut could mean destroying a relationship over nothing.
Let's look at it this way. If you were taken to court, accused of something like, for example, murder, would you want the jury to reach a verdict based on what the evidence suggests or going with their gut?
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Post by Paladin on Oct 5, 2023 21:06:09 GMT -5
I wish people would stop telling people to trust their gut. Their gut doesn't have magical powers. Yeah, I honestly don't know how it became universally accepted that gut instinct is incredibly reliable. I can't image anyone being able to back that up. I don't know how many times I've seen people "know" things in their gut and act on that and it turned out they were dead wrong and ruined relationships. The relationships I'm thinking about weren't romantic but rather friendships but they were ruined by people going with their gut. |
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Post by Large Marge on Oct 6, 2023 4:03:07 GMT -5
i dont know. i was raised to trust your gut. and to listen to your elders. they pass down ancient wisdom.
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Post by Yeti on Oct 7, 2023 0:19:03 GMT -5
i dont know. i was raised to trust your gut. and to listen to your elders. they pass down ancient wisdom. Ancient wisdom also had the Earth as flat and as the center of the universe. Being ancient doesn't make it right. A baby is born knowing nothing, a child has learned a bit over time, and an adult has learned more still. Over time we learn things and develop a better understanding of things. Humanity has done the same thing. Ideally we'd know more today than we did yesterday; we'd understand more today than before. Nobody would argue that we should trust the ancient wisdom of children. |
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