Long before we came along, with our brains and matcha tea, early life forms only had rudimentary sensory systems.
They detected and responded to environmental stimuli… things like light, pressure, or temperature. These primitive systems didn’t “think”, they just acted. They supported survival by moving toward nutrients, or reacting to threats and toxins.
As nervous systems evolved into nerve nets, and eventually brains, those older sensory systems didn’t disappear. They became part of the foundation for what we now experience as intuition or gut feeling. They can operate way quicker than conscious reasoning because they’re fast, automatic, and built for survival. For example, the amygdala and brainstem can trigger action before the cortex finishes fully processing what’s happening (aka sometimes you know something before you know it).
So, intuition and feeling aren’t just “soft” or “irrational”, they’re actually evolutionarily ancient tools for rapid decision-making. Rational thought is a newer layer built on top….And for some of us, it’s still under construction.
Unnecessary shots fired.