How does Intuition work?
Intuition operates at a “level below logic”. It is not unscientific or illogical, it is sub-scientific and sub-logical. Intuition operates on events, not theories. Some of our senses observe events in the world around us and others observe our own bodies to track things like positions of our limbs and our center of balance. Friedrich Hayek has observed that all sensory information is converted to one single kind of nerve signals before reaching the brain. The brain then processes these incoming nerve signals by sending further nerve signals to other parts of the brain. We can view all nerve signals as events, no matter what their origin or purpose. Memory allows us to track and remember these signaling events. We can now start remembering which events precede which other events. Sometimes the former are frequent predictors for the latter, and remembering this correlation would be valuable. Intuition is a process that uses this kind of correlation data to make short-term predictions tha
