Forming intuition/beliefs/values on how to live

[Ginsan]

What's this about? What I am pondering is the effectiveness of following a general philosophy/intuition in life. Or perhaps if it is possible to have a general philosophy that is more effective than intuition. Because intuition is how we make decisions. Ofcourse you can attack/question anything I say and assume here. If you are never wrong or never think that you are wrong, you can't learn anything. But what is intuition? First, knowledge is an idea about X that is most coherent with reality than the other ideas about X. Then intuition is a set of ideas that is closer to reality than any other set of ideas that you have. This intuition changes with time and as you get better ideas, more knowledge. A general philosophy is the same thing. How to gain knowledge? By comparing ideas with reality. Sometimes you have multiple ideas that give the same conclusion but are different from each other. This is at least confusing if not a problem. Let's ignore this problem, let's assume that there is only 1 truth, 1 set of ideas that is most coherent with reality. Alright... But your view of reality is constantly growing, obviously, because you keep adding to your expierience, you also get new ideas. So as long as you can't see the future and as long as time exists, as long as not everything happens at the same time, (btw, according to Einstein's theories light expieriences no time, everything from it's birth to its death happens instantly) knowledge is temporary. So intuition also is temporary. The problem Isn't it a problem that intuition is temporary? That means you live in a constant state of confusion and searching. You have to evaluate the situation and make decisions on what to do every single moment. But this is pretty awesome. My conclusion is that life is an adventure. This was my train of thought and I used this to think. I wrote down what's in my head and read it, thought about it and changed it if I thought it was necessary and keep going if not. This post is my thoughts pretty much in the same order in time as they appeared in my head. I was just thinking about this in my head and when I found it too complicated I realized I had to write it down and think in a more organised way. That conclusion that life is an adventure really followed a few seconds after I said that you live in a constant state of confusion. Maybe you guys can add to this or completely destroy it If this idea is valid then it is a really strong argument to live in the moment and always remain mindful and clear headed. It also means that any kind of intuition/habit/value/philosophy or anything like that should be constantly questioned and never used as authority or blindly followed. Why did I pursue this thought and spend at least an hour on it instead when I have a mountain of urgent math homework in front of me? I have not idea. Perhaps because I'm an idiot Actually it is better to follow your moment to moment intuition than to follow your general philosophy because a general philosophy is just a summary/generalization of your intuitions.