RE: The Science Of Intuition: Why You Can Trust Your Gut Feelings More Than You Think
The gut feeling is an automatic response based on the experiences we already have. To take the Shogi example (okay, I know it form Go, which has way more possibilities), a beginner might need to think half a minute about a often played) position, while the experienced players just places his stone, knowing (either by study or playing) where the best response is.
In Go, while there are often several good positions to play on, there is only one position that can be said as be the best. However there are always a lot bad moves.
With time players get a feeling for those moves, they "see" where they dont need to think about the placement (and indeed, scans have shown the part of the brain responsible for seeing is involved in the decision making) and where are possible good ones.
But of course the experience the gut feeling is based on may be totally wrong in this case or just not usable. That is the time where you should definitely use the other half of the brain more ;)
Yes, I read about a similar experience with chess as well!
Intuition is very often based on experience and patterns we've analyzed like I also mentioned above.
But in some examples like the card experiment, it had more to do with our subconscious "realizing" something quicker than our conscious mind actually does.
Thank you for your input, and you're right, there's no standard rule as to listening to your gut or your brain. it totally depends on the situation!