[MD] Intuitive Reasoning?

[Case]

[Ham]
Awareness, perception, thinking, imagining, and valuing are all "private"
events. It's the kind of event that all ideas come from.  The first step in
"framing" this concept is not to invent or define terms that will "inspire
others" but to realize that all knowledge and experience is proprietary to
the individual.  As Pirsig said about his Quality concept, "You don't have
to define it; everyone knows what it is," I say the same about proprietary
awareness.  The problem isn't that we don't understand such concepts.  It's
that we refuse to ACCEPT them.  This is a matter of personal choice, not
comprehension.

[Case]
Not everyone here denies that subjectivity has disappeared or is not
valuable or that the subject object view is invalid. But from and SOM point
of view subjective insight, intuition, revelation must be subordinated by
some kind of external validation. Protestants for example believe personal
revelation must be tested against the written Word in scripture. Scientists
believe their insights must be tested against logic and external empirical
testing. There are many examples of ideas in science and math where based in
insight accepted without such empirical or logical testing because they were
so powerful and yet they are accepted provisionally until tests or means of
external validation could be worked out. Newton's calculus and Einstein's
relativity are striking examples.

However, intuition and insight are frequently wrong and in the absence of
any conceivable test are best kept private.