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Intuition is a form of knowing whereby the person does not have the factual or empirical knowledge for how they know something. Intuition is a common sense guess or conjecture. To put this in terms of the Transactional Analysis personality structure, intuitive functioning is based on the Adult ego state within the Child. This state is referred to as the “Little Professor.” When this ego state is free from Parental programming, it operates creatively and intuitively based on bodily senses versus analytical and prejudicial “knowledge.” For example, the way a 3-year-old can read a group of people in a room without “knowing” what everyone is talking about. The user of the virtual world is fundamentally dissociated from the body and operates from a place of wanting or craving. The analytical and algorithmic-based frames of reference have rendered the process of intuition obsolete. We begin to think like machines. But, computers do not have awareness of a body as a referential object, and therefore, do not have this faculty of common sense. Erik Larsen (2021) proclaims that computers cannot think the way we do and never will. Byung-Chul Han states that computers are able to count and calculate, but they cannot recount a narrative. The virtual world is constructed and runs on a binary language of 0’s and 1’s, i.e., data and code, which does not require bodily contact. Digital communication is sending and receiving “information” and not the “noise” that is intuited between relational bodies.
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