"Intelligence and the science based on it serve the needs of ... a person who creates artificial tools. Intelligence is able to know not the things themselves, but only the relationships between them. Because of this, the truth that science provides is also relative. It’s only intuition that grows from the immediate life instinct, it is given to comprehend the absolute truth-life in its deepest manifestations ... "(Henri Bergson)
How do you feel about the author’s understanding of the role of intuition in cognition?
Is it possible to absolutely share the knowledge of things themselves and the relations between them?
I will quote Einstein's words about intuition: "Intuition is a sacred gift, and a rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and forgot about the gift," "I would never make my discoveries in the process of rational thinking." As for knowing things, we do not know things themselves, phenomena, but our reactions to them, our attitude. Their knowledge depends directly on our properties.
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