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All above-mentioned constructions of the intuitive experience are based on the idealized model of intellectual life. Its the creativity in its broadest sense. Indeed, literary works, paintings and our favorite movies are something other than dry academic treatises. They don’t put the desire to find a generally valid truth first. Rather they emphasize bursting out something unexpected, extraordinary or simply what captures the attention of many in an incredible way. To be frank we must say that scientific discoveries are made likewise. They seem to be an insight experience to their authors rather than a result of dull rational work.

Aversion therapy has been used for many years in the treatment  of alcoholism (3). Apomorphine and emetine are the usual  drugs used as the unconditioned stimuli for nausea and vomiting, with  alcohol as the conditioned stimulus

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Damasio, Antonio R. 1999. The feeling of what happens: Body and emotion in the making of consciousness. 1st ed. New York: Harcourt Brace.