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. On the other hand, when speaking of the human consciousness structure these philosophic exercises with irrational experience are a good analogy rather than a real model. For a very long while the human is the unity of two sides – the rational area, well-visible, striving to be understood, and the dark one: the realm of emotions and unconscious. One can only guess about thedark sideactivities and even role. To understand it one can use analogies, for instance, comparing it with its researcher internal world. Any science requires a classification. It means that only the language of the literature and philosophy can have much to say about the intuition or inspiration. The psychology finds it more convenient to speak of certain structures. Therefore, the human mind appears to have the unconscious besides the consciousness as the rational core. Freud found superego as the mediator between the Ego and unconscious (which Freud figuratively parallelizes with the full uncertainty of the German pronoun es). The logic demands that an alternative to the unconscious shall be created. And Clarence Irving Lewis introduces the concept of Qualia introduced as the storage of 'raw feels' of sensations. The doors of perception, a preprocessor of our rational actions open to us.

 

 

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