Intuitive knowledge

We have the ability to intuit much of our own knowledge by observing the emotional reaction of other people when they encounter something that we havent experienced before. The ability to infer meaning by observing the emotional reaction of others is one of the first abilities that we develop in an effort to understand our world. It is based on one of the earliest known sensory skills that we aquire, that of reading the emotional content in faces.

From this emotional content we intuitively perform the actions that we observed leading to pleasure, and we sub-consciously select probable outcomes that may replicate the conditions where we observed a positive emotional reaction.

In an environment where emotions are honestly expressed this system of learning provides the perfect way to give infants the abillity to survive and prosper, without the need to rely on less efficient means of communication such as language. We all know that such honest environments are difficult to find, and it is therefore understandable that many infants grow up with false inherited experiences.

This early growth method can also be negatively influenced by environmental conditions that do not allow the infant to establish reference values for the different emotions during the time that they have the ability to percieve emotion.

Incorrect or absent reference values at this stage of a childs development can cause severe adjustment problems in the broader society. It can also explain many of the different learning and behavioural problems that children are diagnosed with in our society. If we are exposed to honest expression during the time of our life that we are experts at sensing feelings and emotions we have a far greater change of being happy in our lives.

Honest expression later in life also provide us the opportunity to correct any of the false emotional reference values, but this time we have to use language to express our opinion. This in turn can be referenced with our own memories to allow us the opportunity to adjust the emotional content of our previous observation, thereby adjusting our own value system to a universal understanding of emotion and feeling.

In much the same way our society has created a multitude of reasons not to express ourself honestly, with the result that children often find it difficult to correct false emotional values. By honestly communicating our opinion of our own reality we can establish a common reality that reflect us as an individual. Through communicating we can discover who we are.