Question

I very much enjoyed reading (most of) the Rabbi’s books—like cold water for a weary soul!
In general, I understand the Rabbi’s view on intuition roughly like this: intuition is a kind of sixth sense of the soul. It is the basis for our trust in truths, and it is also the grounding for “principles of faith,” such as our perception of ourselves as dualistic beings possessing a soul beyond the body, free choice, prophetic ability, and perhaps also some additional kind of perception of God’s reality.
But how does this square with studies on intuition itself? The advanced understanding and experiments regarding how unconscious mechanisms operate show that the brain is a machine that produces hundreds of thousands of analogies and inductions and tests them through fast thinking (I think that’s Kahneman’s term), and in that way examines everything in reality. We are not directly exposed to this activity, but only to the rational part of thought that is revealed to us in the form of an “inner voice speaking.” Intuition appears to us as something wondrous—an illumination from heaven, a quasi-prophetic voice—but it is really a mechanistic and materialistic mechanism that performs many calculations, and very often also errs and misleads.
Such an understanding of the concept of intuition undermines many of our intuitions (is there a circular fallacy here?) regarding a dualistic perception, and with it also the principles of faith based on it. We are amazing robots, who invented the story of the soul because we had no ability to understand the materialistic causes. Like all the ancient mythological stories that explained natural phenomena we did not understand by means of “spiritual” tales, failure to understand intuition is what gave rise to the meta-mythological story of the invention of the concept of the soul.