Intuition is the conclusion you reach when you don't yet have all the information.
Intuition is extremely useful when information is fragmented. It is not your brain being lazy. When not all of your energy and attention are focused on something yet, your brain can use part of that energy to make a quick preliminary conclusion and then refine it as more information becomes available.
The classic example is:
A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total.
The bat costs $1 more than the ball.
How much does the ball cost?
People supposedly get this wrong "intuitively." I think that's a bit unfair. It's almost as if the question is deliberately written in a way that makes you misread it. Nobody who can do basic arithmetic genuinely believes that 10 cents is the correct answer. In reality, almost everyone simply skims over the word "more", because the question is phrased in an unusual way.
If you focus on overlap and categorization between multiple things, you lose focus on the uniqueness of a thing. If you look at reality through a numbers lens, you don't see the uniqueness of two apples. It's a devilish trap.
Science looks for similarities.
Ten people who share similar traits—we call that ADHD.
"Oh, these things look a bit alike." So we group them together based on a number of characteristics.
Religion is the opposite.
It begins with what is unique about every living being (or even every non-living thing).
For example: what makes you different from everyone else on Earth? What do you have that nobody else has?
If your first thought is, "I'm not that arrogant," you've already made a thinking error.
Because everyone has something.
Absolutely everyone has something that no one else has.
The way you see the world.
The particular way you worry.
The exact thought you're having right now.
It has never happened before.
Everything is that unique.
If you truly understand this, you enjoy what exists much more. Because you realize that everything is unique and temporary.
This has nothing to do with an invisible entity.
You automatically appreciate everything that exists, because it will never happen again—not in exactly the same way.
It's like people who believed the Earth was flat. Given the information they had, it was the correct answer.