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Your intuition is described as a gut feeling or an instinctive understanding that something is about to happen, whether it be good or bad, without conscious reasoning. Though often difficult to trust, ...

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One of the strangest quirks of memory is that we cannot trust our own intuitions about it. Memory’s underlying mechanisms are largely unavailable to our conscious awareness. Because memory processes ...