Pathfinding: a neurodynamical account of intuition.
Communications Biology August 13, 2025 Steven Kotler, Michael Mannino, Karl Friston et al. 2 citations
We examine the neurobiology of intuition, a term often inconsistently defined in scientific literature. While researchers generally agree that intuition represents "an experienced-based process resulting in a spontaneous tendency toward a hunch or hypothesis," we establish a firmer neurobiological foundation by framing intuition evolutionarily as a pathfinding mechanism emerging from the...