The Questions  ·  the self · the two systems

Is your gut lying to you?

The phrase gives itself away. I’m going to trust my gut on this — said out loud, considered, decided upon. Something weighed that.

Most people never audited the books at all.

The choice system. The decision to trust the gut is itself a weighing.

What this settles

So the question answers itself the moment it is asked aloud. Trusting the gut is not the urge system winning; it is the choice system electing to defer. The gut is not lying or telling the truth — it is being signed for by something that could have checked and did not.

What it leaves open

If awareness is the game — how does a person tell those two apart in the moment?

Raised in this footing and not answered anywhere in the corpus. Naming the two systems is not the same as catching which one is running while it runs.

Not this question

Does it check out, or does it just feel good?

Also in this footing, and a different question. That one is about a feeling arriving and logic’s name getting signed to work it never did. This one is about who signed the decision to stop checking.

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Is Your Gut Lying to You?

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Where this question sits

The forgery

A feeling filed as a conclusion and logic's name signed to work it never did — the sort that catches it, and whether anyone can run the sort in the moment. 2 of the 4 here have been worked through; the rest are on the map and not yet walked.

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