Evaluate the role of intuition in different areas of knowledge

... Evaluate the role of intuition in different areas of knowledge Intuition is the hunch to turn left at a crossroads when you're lost or the gut feeling that you should choose the third queue in the supermarket because you "feel" that it's the best one. There are those who argue that intuition is in fact not a feeling and but a reasonable and logical choice that your subconscious makes for you. For example when a fireman is inside a burning building and has two seconds to decide if he should turn right or left. He thinks that it's his intuition telling him to go left when it could be argued that his subconscious has made a logical calculation of his surroundings and decided that it's safest to go left. It could also be argued that intuition is an instinct. If attacked by a bear, your intuition and instinct become the same;

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