*I'm sorry if you felt that I was trying to undermine your work. I value your research and information very highly. I wouldn't argue with your conclusions, as to the effect of LGATs on the nervous system, or on anything, really.
I am also not promoting that there's anything mystical about our "gut feelings," and neither does Gavin Dr Becker. It's actually quite the opposite. What he explained in the book was that our brain is processing a lot of information in the "background," that is not at the forefront of our consciousness.
For example, I could have been focused on the Forum leader, and what he was saying, and I may have been turning that around in my mind, trying to make it fit some situation, but in some other part of my brain, I was aware that someone just came into the room, (I heard the door close behind me), and that the course supervisor just passed a note to someone on the production team, (which I saw in my peripheral vision).
If you read the excerpt, a woman escapes what would probably have been her death. She commented that she, "just knew," but he actually walks us through how she knew. He actually applied critical thinking and logic, to that very situation, and she was able to do the same. In the moment, she wouldn't have had the time, though.
I am also not promoting that there's anything mystical about our "gut feelings," and neither does Gavin Dr Becker. It's actually quite the opposite. What he explained in the book was that our brain is processing a lot of information in the "background," that is not at the forefront of our consciousness.
For example, I could have been focused on the Forum leader, and what he was saying, and I may have been turning that around in my mind, trying to make it fit some situation, but in some other part of my brain, I was aware that someone just came into the room, (I heard the door close behind me), and that the course supervisor just passed a note to someone on the production team, (which I saw in my peripheral vision).
If you read the excerpt, a woman escapes what would probably have been her death. She commented that she, "just knew," but he actually walks us through how she knew. He actually applied critical thinking and logic, to that very situation, and she was able to do the same. In the moment, she wouldn't have had the time, though.
