http://www.psyarticles.com/intellect/gut-feelings.htm
This article will give you the understanding from which gut feelings come from. It is possible that the gut feelings come from memories which we can't access conciously. Unconcious memory is what gives us the ability to possibly recognize a face of a crimminal or the right answer to a test,these memories are alive on an unconcious level. In this study two groups were shown a series of kaleidoscope images to memmorize and the second half of the images were to be associated with a verbal number. This study was designed to distract the participants from being able to memorize all of the images. A short time later the participants were asked to veiw pairs of images in a recognition test. They were more accurate when they had been distracted and when they claimed to be guessing. It seems that the visual system was still storing the information even though they were distracted. With the use of an EEG a unique signal was found one quarter of a scond after the participants seen an old image.
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I read an interesting article once about gut reactions and fear. It followed the same idea that your article seemed to get at. It said never to ignore a really strong gut reaction as our subconcious is a powerful warning system. Interestingly, they point to the fact that planes that crash have more people that either miss the flight, or don't show up at all because they had a "bad feeling".
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