In my opinion it certainly does. Whether it is good or bad is a different aspect. An excellent study is given here:

Norenzayan, A., Smith, E. E., Kim, B. J., & Nisbett, R. E. (2002). Cultural preferences for formal versus intuitive reasoning. Cognitive Science, 26(5), 653-684. (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1207/s15516709cog2605_4/pdf)

@Nageswara

Thanks for the reference. I hope to get some insights and share them with colleagues.

My intuition works the best in relation to other cultures, situations or people I don’t know very well. It goes together with assimilation of all kind of information. Something unknown is sometimes triggering a whole bunch of abstract feelings which can be called intuition.

The content of intuition itself is not very well known, it’s a kind of pre-consciousness, a precognition.

Dear Mohamed, what is intuition according to you?

"There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance". - Albert Einstein

Dear Mohamed

The mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal was referring to intuition as the product of the mind's ability to do many things at once, due to the infinite unconscious connections that make possible the conscious mind to make choices. Albert Einstein, considered the most intuitive of history, emphasized the value of intuitive potential. The psychiatrist Carl Jung said about the intuitive knowledge: "Each of us has the wisdom and knowledge you need in your own inner '

People with low self-esteem, for example, have more difficulty believing in intuitive intelligence due to a distrust of anything that comes from within We must rely on intuition as the self confidence and enable people to separate the sensing their fears and desires

Dear Guido,

As we can see from the valuable contributions of many colleagues on ResearchGate, intuition seems to have many manifestations. So I am inclined to say that to me intuition is a feeling of expectation driven by events, information, or / and action about future events, information, actions. It is a faculty of the mind. An immediate truth presented to the mind with the clarity of an evidence.

I think, intuition is culturally rooted, almost always so. When i look to my own intuitions in the past, I can definitely say that they had roots in myself living in a certain context and surroundings, which are surely part of my culture.

Instinct and Intuition, defined by Francis P. Cholle:

1. Instinct is our innate inclination toward a particular behavior (as opposed to a learned response).

2. A gut feeling—or a hunch—is a sensation that appears quickly in consciousness (noticeable enough to be acted on if one chooses to) without us being fully aware of the underlying reasons for its occurrence.

3. Intuition is a process that gives us the ability to know something directly without analytic reasoning, bridging the gap between the conscious and non-conscious parts of our mind, and also between instinct and reason.

Francis P. Cholle is the author of “The Intuitive Compass”

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-intuitive-compass/201108/what-is-intuition-and-how-do-we-use-it

Thank you Mohamed. It that case you can consider any interpretation of experimental data in physics as a little bit a trace of intuition. And the same experimental data can be interpreted in different ways. Perhaps, reall purely my intuition, that de Brogly interpreted microscopic phenomena as waves while Bohr interpreted all in terms of particles. Both were embedded in a different culural conception of time and space, Bohr's intuition corresponded more to the Leibniz conception, de Brogly to the Newton conception

I completely agree with C. Lewis Kausel. To me intuition or gut feeling is nothing more than processed information stored in the back of head. Due to some trigger (external stimuli) it comes to the fore of the mind and we think, we have received the idea from somewhere else or someone else (God). In fact, it was always there and we were searching it hard.

I highly appreciate Kausel's idea

"I could see that intuition commonly understands the surrounding world from sensory experience (touch, weight, energy, materials' qualities). Intuition is necessary for creativity. A vision of how phenomena take place, or how things could be built, are intuitions. The inventors of instruments, structures, assembled artifacts, artifacts in motion, communication artifacts, work with observation of phenomena, materials and their properties, and their own vision of new possibilities, of course, in addition to the input they receive from existing cultural concepts".

Obviously information from the culture in which one is brought up and information received from other culture via any or a combination of sensory perception together with knowledge of national and global cultural trends, all are synthesise in mind and updated and at some moment of time this is triggered to come to the fore of mind as a novel idea or concept which is not divorced from one's own culture.

What is cultural for you?

For example, Einstein (german, Nobel in Physics) for me was all intuition.

I think we need to differentiate different level of intuition.

(Arno, women more... je).

If the information is good and big, and based in truth, if the person is rightful (real with himself) this intuition is "Real". (with no error)... ?

The feeling of truth...

Mohamed Benmerikhi, "An immediate truth presented to the mind with the clarity of an evidence." Yes.

My question now is "Real" intuition can err. (The real, the certainly feel).

More than culture I can think is important the less limits learned. (Operating prohibitions).

Without artificial limits, more free, and more freedom of though. It's necessary less control. (I think).

I think intuition is greatly influenced by the culture in which a man is grown up. His mental attitude is governed by the past knowledge he has acquired since his childhood. If he is grown up in a good intellectual and optimistic society he will have more power of intuition comparatively.

I think is family dependent.

No Arno, I don't say this.

We need all (ALL big word).

To have a good intuition is necessary a good analytic mind, a good deduction and a fearless thinking. It is truth dependent (truth with all date, and truth with youself. With this truth you cannot use revanchism or a no real feeling in every moment, you don't need). (The bravery needs less iniquities).

But possibly when you achieve to dominate intuition the ways to obtain this come to a second plane. (Needs it inside, but no to use like before). I can think Real intuition is an evolution of thinking mechanism. (And needs analytic, deduction, truth, and love).

Dear Ana,

Do you not think that profession and information obtained as a professional form the part of one's culture?

"Information" if you know to read...

University good information is basic. School obligatory is basic. Good and true professional or teacher is better. For me is easy to have if we want.

All is part of our culture. I don't understand very well your question.

Information without words, a world different from ours, and you can feel it like all intuition because is different mechanism of take information than yours. You cannot understan how, and for that, feel it all intuition.

About woman, I make a simile with brain and a tree or a plant. In the finish of all leaves the more recently present and the most recently relations of all the fine brain. In the branches a relation not necessary so instantaneous (time a little more dilated to operate), and trunk (me and past, more memory only).

Why today woman continuous more intuitive?

Women continuous limited today in all country, because protection, because fear of parents, because danger of docility faced with violence (men and Y chromosome have more violence and competitiveness information).

Thinking in the brain like a plant when you limit the growth of a plant pruning, it increases its ramifications. And the relations growth too. The cross information is high, and the no understandable deduction too.

"You cannot understand how, and for that, feel it all intuition"... (another time).

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=intuition+%5Bti%5D+AND+cultural+%5Bti%5D

interesting paper about cultural intuition

Intuition sounds as something of a higher value, as a pre-cognition, but it can easy be mixed up with wishful thinking.

It also is sometimes hard to differentiate from instinctive behaviour which has a lower value.

I don’t know if it is even general accepted.

A few years ago they told me that the reason always must have the last word.

May be it will be something for the new paradigm in neuroscience.

Yes Arno, with difficults more.

This is true, but intuition is not a method, it is something what is,

It exists probably on the quantum level. It is ‘ahead of IS’ if IS is the moment of consciousness.

I have the idea that it transcends time, something abstract which is not outlined.

Also the idea of being ahead can be translated as an idea, it is still there after the ‘IS’.

It is interesting to think about it.