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What Science Says About the Reliability of Our Intuition
Researchers are studying our individual intuition and its impact on entire fields, such as agriculture. They are also examining what hinders or strengthens it and how we can best utilize it.
While most everyone is aware of their intuition in some sense, it’s long been viewed as an almost mystical sense, for better or worse, that’s beyond our ability to define, let alone study how accurate it may be.
Yet, such mysticism is fading in the modern world as technological advancements better help scientists research our more esoteric abilities, including our intuition. While still mysterious, we’ve become much better at defining and understanding our intuition than ever before, including what hinders it and how to improve it.
What is Intuition?
Like dreaming, people have long associated intuition with the divine or as a sort of prophetic sixth sense. The term itself comes from the mid-15th-century Latin word intuicioun, which refers to “insight, direct or immediate cognition, and spiritual perception.”
Intuition continues to evoke a mystical connotation all these centuries later, but these days, we commonly refer to…
