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All people are born with different capacities, whose phylogenetic origin is difficult to trace. These skills go numb as we mature, socialized and polite. Obviously, the animals retain some ability to perceive signals that humans have forgotten. And this ability is what we call “intuition.”

What is intuition?

One of the most successful definitions of intuition (at least to me) says that intuition is to know, without knowing how we know it. It is a form of knowledge that helps us recognize the possibilities of any situation without resorting to the reasoning and perceiving the hidden or do not appear at first glance.

Intuition allows us to grasp the truth immediately and accurately, obtaining certain conclusions based on limited information. Weston Agor refers to intuition as “the ability to integrate and use information stored on both sides of the brain”, and tells us that “the intuitive signals are transmitted in the form of feelings”

Burke and Miller argue that “intuition is an unconscious mental process that builds on the previous history of the individual.” Jagdish Parikh speaks of an “access to the internal pool of expertise and experience accumulated over the years, and obtaining a response or an impulse to do something, or of a chosen alternative among several, all without being aware of how to obtain”

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