To be truthful, ;) I give ´gut knowing´ a much higher value than other people.  In my simplified view, I have gut, heart and head --or whatever you want to name them-- and real knowing comes only from the integration of the three.

I have a well-trained head, but I have come to question the value of rationality as the end-all we are used to assuming.  For one thing, every single one of us is on drugs, be it sugar, foodstuffs, contamination, coca leaves, caffeine, nicotine, etc., therefore, our logic is untrustworthy at any given moment.  Even in brainiac hours, logic does not account for good decisions, unless the heart is involved because they would easily be cold and  inhumane.  Then the gut still feels necessary, to round out and ground the whole process in some strange way.

Many times, as in tests, your first, gut guess is really the best and I have no idea why.  The gut instinct for me, sometimes gels a much better answer, faster than the head and heart, even if I always run it through all three, a moment later.

Don´t ask me to put it in technical terms, but I believe we should ´honor´, develop and use our gut sense a lot more than we do.

Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.