Baseline Thoughts

   The human brain is a neural network. Its native mode of operation is pattern-matching, not traditional logic.
   It is only through evolutionary development that part of the brain has come to be able to perform syllogistic logic (ie. A implies B). That part of the brain is a limited resource. Ideas must be taken into its working area and that area can only hold 5 to 10 ideas at a time.
   The ideas that can be brought into the working area are selected from the mass of ideas we have floating in our memory and consciousness.
   What is intuition? Rather than be abstract, let's take this context - the stock market in 1929 and the stock market in 1999. In how many ways are the two situations the same and in how many ways are they different? One person may decide there are too many differences to draw analogies on the second from the first. Another person may decide they are alike in enough ways to consider them as 2 examples of the same general type. If you pull these ideas into the working area, you get different logical results, depending on how close you insist these ideas must be to be considered