[From Erling Jorgensen (2018.08.20 1405 EDT)]
Rupert Young (2018.08.19 16.05)
RY: Immediately I felt something was wrong with his statement, but wasn’t sure why…
RY: The PCT explanation of this might be that there were perceptual control systems that were ‘monitoring’ relationships between associated facts. Within these error was raised due to a mismatch between facts.
EJ: According to Powers’ proposed perceptual hierarchy (revised), the perceptual level above Relationships would be that of Categories. My picture of categories is like a bin of associated items, in which case error would arise due to the wrong author’s name in the wrong bin, and/or that name showing up in a different bin of associated items.
RY: As they were unconscious I wasn’t immediately aware of the content of the facts involved. It took some time for the details to come into awareness.
EJ: According to a classic understanding of PCT, we don’t perceive error itself, just perceptions. So any awareness of error would have to arise indirectly, as error starts to take corrective action, eventually generating other perceptions to then notice. If you were “not immediately aware of the content of the facts involved”, it seems you did not yet have a specific reference standard with which to correct the error. But the mismatch within the Category bins may have generated collateral actions, such as prompting your body to give you more energy in case it might be needed. (Is this the role of the Amygdala and other aspects of the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis?) That vague sense of restless discomfort may have been what you perceived, as you “felt something was wrong.”
RY: Is this phenomenon, of immediate apprehension, without knowing why, what is meant by intuition?
EJ: That’s not a bad speculation. If so, then maybe we should start to associate ‘intuition’ with an ‘indirect awareness of PCT error’ – i.e., put them in the same bin.
All the best,
Erling
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