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No, this device can’t 'enhance' your intuition
Intuition is that gut feeling you get about a situation or a decision. The hunch you can't quite rationalize but that just... feels right. Modern psychology generally agrees that intuition is your subconscious whispering in your ear. The idea that all the knowledge and past experiences swirling around your head are responsible for that gut feeling -- even if you can't consciously put the pieces together to understand the why. It's just one of the many mysterious ways our brains process information. Intuition isn't something that's simple to observe, but one company claims its device can measure it, and actually enhance it.
Cornell study shows some proof to human precognition -- at least when it comes to porn
Sit yourself down in front of two curtains and have a friend randomly put a picture behind one. How often do you think you could guess the right curtain to open? Science says that, given enough repetition, you'd guess right exactly half the time. The other half the time, well, you'd be wrong. But, according to research conducted by Cornell Professor Daryl Bem, there are at least some signs we humans can do a little better than that. Bem found that when not just any picture was used, when it was an erotic picture, his subjects guessed right 53.4 percent of the time. Other tests too showed slight but statistically significant results seemingly pointing to human cognition when there was some sort of conditioned stimulus/response involved. Maybe Venkman really was just too far ahead of his time.
