6th & 7th Sense (Khalil presents)

We originally had "Getaway" scheduled for tonight but since our topic host Robert is sick we are postponing that topic for a later meeting.

Symptom-free (of potentially contagious disease) people with the capacity to listen considerately to diverse viewpoints are invited to attend after successfully RSVPing.

We begin the meeting at 7:30 pm sharp in the mezzanine of the Graduate Hotel. Feel free to come up to 30 minutes early and hang out with us beforehand. After you come down the stairs we may be in either the main room on your left or in the conference room around the corner on your right.

From the front Hotel entrance go to the right around the corner to enter through the north valet entrance. If the valet questions you just say you're here for the philosophy group. Go straight to the main lobby and turn right behind the large bookshelves before the elevators. Go up the stairs to your left and through the first door you encounter to enter our meeting room.

🧠 Scientific Meaning (Real “Sixth” and “Seventh” Senses)

While we’re taught there are five senses — sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch — science recognizes many more. The real “sixth” and “seventh” senses could be:

1. Proprioception (Body Awareness)
   • Your brain’s ability to sense where your body parts are without looking.
   • Example: You can touch your nose with your eyes closed because of proprioception.
2. Equilibrioception (Balance)
   • The sense of balance controlled by your inner ear (vestibular system).
   • It helps you stand, walk, and not fall over.

🌙 What Intuition Really Is

Intuition is your brain’s ability to make fast, accurate judgments without conscious reasoning.
It feels like a gut feeling or a sudden knowing — you just sense something is right or wrong before you can explain why.

Example:
You meet someone and immediately feel uneasy — later you realize they gave off subtle signals (tone, posture, eyes) that your brain caught but your conscious mind didn’t analyze yet.

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🧠 How It Works in the Brain

1. Subconscious Pattern Recognition
   • Your brain stores vast amounts of experience and patterns — more than you can consciously recall.
   • When faced with a situation, it rapidly compares it to past patterns and delivers a “feeling” (good, bad, safe, risky).
   • That feeling is intuition.
2. Emotional Processing (Amygdala & Insula)
   • The emotional centers of your brain evaluate subtle sensory and social information — facial micro-expressions, voice tone, timing, body language — in milliseconds.
   • You feel it in your gut because these signals trigger bodily reactions via the vagus nerve.
3. Interoception
   • Your awareness of internal body states (heartbeat, stomach tightness, breath) plays a key role.
   • Intuitive people often have higher interoceptive awareness — they notice how their body subtly reacts to situations

AMAZON FORMAT (AZF):
At the beginning of the meeting we will take turns reading lines from the above text aloud together.

OPENING ROUNDTABLE FORMAT (ORF):

1. The topic presenter begins the discussion by explaining why they are interested in the topic and some introductory thoughts on it.
2. Each participant in turn going clockwise from the presenter describes their general thoughts on the topic.
3. If one is not ready to speak they can just say “pass” and the next person speaks.
4. After we've gone around once anyone who passed will get a second chance to comment.
5. Once everyone has given opening remarks or passed twice, Opening Roundtable is completed and the meeting shifts into its main format.

TIMED DIRECTION FORMAT (TDRF>5):
If there are more than 5 people present we will use the format below.

1. We will divide up the timed direction discussion time by the number of participants plus one (for a buffer). A timer will be set for this amount of time.
2. Each participant in turn will become a Discussion Director and lead the group discussion.
3. If one is not ready to direct they dimply say “pass” and the next person becomes the Discussion Director.
4. Anyone who arrives after step 1 (above), may participate but will not get a turn as Discussion Director.
5. The Discussion Director can make statements or ask questions, or interrupt or redirect the discussion at their discretion.
6. The discussion participants can state their own opinions only when asked by the Discussion Director, not Interrupt others and accede to the Discussion Director’s interruptions or redirections.
7. When the timer goes off the person speaking finishes their thought and then the next participant clockwise becomes the next Discussion Director.
8. After we've gone around once anyone who passed will get a second chance to direct.

At the end of the meeting, participants will have an opportunity to vote on the topic and format for the following meeting.