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What is the source of intuition?

My intuition has never failed me. I have recognized a intuition after a event and I have ignored it and 'paid the price'. Is intuition an advanced human capacity that we have yet to harness? Is it a mental process based on retained experience and associated probabilities? Or, do we process an event and enlist our creative mind to imagine and convince ourselves we were aware prior? Your thoughts

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    Ayd Asraf 30+

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    Jul 25 2012: The intuition is some kind of multi-variable complex equation that has many inputs and various outputs, the inputs mainly revolves around on:
    - God gift intuition.
    - Intelligence in all of it's nine types.
    - Learning level and culture level
    - The past experience lessons learnt.
    - beliefs and point of views the person has.
    - Self-Morals

    all of those interact in strange mix giving the level of intuition each person has, we cannot give a component higher level of importance over the other nor eliminating it's effect, each of them has equal influence and the way they differ in the affect by doing combinations with other ones.

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