Innate Intelligence
Innate Intelligence is a chiropractic term to describe the organizing properties of living things. It was originally coined by Daniel David Palmer, the founder of chiropractic. This vitalistic concept states that all life contains Innate (inborn) Intelligence and that this force is responsible for the organization, maintenance and healing of the body. Philosophically, chiropractors believe that they remove the interference to the nervous system (by way of a spinal adjustment) and that when the spine is in correct alignment, Innate Intelligence can act, by way of the nervous system, to heal disease within the body. The term is intimately connected with the term Universal Intelligence.
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... The term "Universal Intelligence" is used as a starting point in chiropractic philosophy ... In order to establish the existence of a Universal Intelligence, inductive reasoning is used, while the rest of chiropractic philosophy is deductive in nature ... This concept is based upon the idea that organization bespeaks an intelligence, and thus, the order and organization of atoms, which are universal ...
... want to separate themselves from the traditional vitalistic concept of innate intelligence ... now the minority, emphasize vitalism, innate intelligence and spinal adjustments, and consider vertebral subluxations to be the cause of all disease "mixers", the majority, are ... of its existence, chiropractic has been sustained by pseudoscientific ideas such as subluxation and innate intelligence that are not based on solid science ...
... reveal neither the subluxations nor the innate intelligence associated with chiropractic philosophy, because they do not exist ... Lon Morgan, DC, a reform chiropractor, expressed his view of Innate Intelligence this way "Innate Intelligence clearly has its origins in borrowed mystical and occult practices of a bygone era ... The chiropractic concept of Innate Intelligence is an anachronistic holdover from a time when insufficient scientific understanding existed to explain human ...
... The term "Innate Intelligence" (sometimes abbreviated "II") is still used by certain chiropractors ... Chiropractic philosophy begins with the principle that the human organism has an innate power to maintain its own health" and includes "This unique health care approach views the body as having an innate ... It is this marvelous, innate(inborn), purposeful nature which is the predominant, practical reality behind the mechanisms of homeostasis." ...
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