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[Mr. Potato Head]

I think new ideas are modifications to things that already exist. I subscribe to the notion that we are all conditioned by our environment we live in and the rest is genetic/evolved. Gut feelings --> your new ideas theory are merely logic turned rationale turned common sense applied to solve a problem at hand. Our thought process has evolved with our bodies and we simply apply it in the range of our present.

When we have more time we always turn to the slow, raw logic. When we are in the middle of the street and under a tire, we use what we were born with, unless something we lived through has modified that gut feeling. Hence the concept of "knowing better." Sometimes we are torn between what we sense and what we learn. Such as my example in a different thread about turning to look who is coming into your area. We know we are not really prey anymore, but we still look even though we know we probably don't need to. In this case, our gut wins over our logic. It depends on your circumstance.