Hello Jimmy,

Thank you very much for your feedback; I agree that the boundaries of intuition are fuzzy to most. There is a shocking lack of framework to help those that believe intuition is a real function of the mind and who want to improve.
Several thoughts in response to your considerate questions and points:

1. Science has largely ignored intuition because it is difficult to measure. However, this is starting to change as physics, psychology, and neuroscience all being to consider consciousness. Technology is helping to map out brain correlation to mind function and there are hints in the scientific literature that intuition is a distinct phenomenon. But enormous work remains.

2. To me logic is a function of the analytical, "left brain." I put that in quotes because it is a functional distinction, not an actual physical distinction. Scientists have demonstrated that the hard divide between the left brain and right brain identified in the early 1960s holds mostly only in schizophrenics. Healthy brains show that functionality is distributed throughout the brain and not confined to one hemisphere or another. Nonetheless, logic only works with an initial assumption or observation. From where does this come? I would argue that intuition is the initial point of recognition into consciousness. I would argue extremely strongly that intuition is useless to most without being used to inform reasoning, creativity, memory, and knowledge. So where intuition ends and logic begins is an interesting discussion, but not a necessary one. Put another way, do we have to understand the science behind how a screwdriver works to help us tighten a screw in order to tighten the screw, or is it enough to pick up the screwdriver and to use it to tighten the screw? [Nonetheless, if you look in my book, The Intuitive Investor, there is an extended discussion in chapter 13 where I discuss the demarcation for which you are looking. Your question has inspired me to write more about this is a future post. Sneak preview of a linear model of descending from consciousness into matter: intuition to creativity to intellect to knowledge to memory to choice to action. You see logic enters into it in steps 3 to 6.]

3. As for the "gut feeling" point...yes, this is a common misunderstanding and one that served as a justification for me to begin writing these posts on intuition. Check out the other three posts on intuition I have written to see what I think the differences are between intuition, instinct, System 1, and System 2. Especially read: The Intuitive Investor: Defining Intuition [https://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/the-intuitive-investor-defining…].

Thank you, thank you for your discussion! I hope this was helpful!

Jason