Intuition is far more than just a gut feeling, as this shows…
Human eyesight might seem straightforward: The eye receives images, the brain processes them.
But we actually have two vision tracks—one conscious, the other intuitive—and as a result, the eye sees far more than we generally realise.
For instance, in a phenomenon known as blindsight, people who have gone blind because of brain damage can still navigate an obstacle course or identify emotion on a person’s face, even though they can’t consciously see it. Their intuitive vision track is receiving visual stimuli, even though their conscious vision track isn’t; they know what’s around them—they just don’t know how they know.
Blindsight patients are an extreme example, but they illustrate a phenomenon everyone experiences: We absorb and retain visual information that doesn’t penetrate our conscious mind.
It’s our intuition at work.