What is intuition?

Understanding this elusive sense

Dr. Niranjan Seshadri
The Startup
Published in
8 min readSep 1, 2019

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Intuition or the ‘gut feeling’ is the ability to gain immediate understanding without the agency of conscious reasoning. Intuitive understanding bypasses the logical arm of the mind-brain network. In all probability, the majority of us have had such an experience at some point in our lives. Intuition is also referred to as the sixth sense.

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Dr. Niranjan Seshadri
The Startup

Physician I Author I Transformational Philosophy - Awareness and its power to transform. www.intoawareness.org. Learn more- amazon.com/author/seshadri