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If you're interested in that line of thought and would like perspective on the way perhaps Ramanujan might have perceived it, perhaps you may enjoy this transcript of a great lecture from an Indian holy man, mathematician and poet (Swami Rama Thirtha) in SF in 1903: http://www.ramatirtha.org/vol1/inspiration.htm

>It has kept me thinking what "intuition" really is, how it develops and happens in the brain, and what would be needed to build AI that has intuition.

http://danroy.org/papers/FreRoyTen-Turing.pdf -- TOWARDS COMMON-SENSE REASONING VIA CONDITIONAL SIMULATION: LEGACIES OF TURING IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

http://www.mit.edu/~tomeru/thesis/tomerThesis.pdf -- On the Nature and Origin of Intuitive Theories: Learning, Physics and Psychology

Douglas R. Hofstadter has written multiple books on the subject. He most directly addresses it in "Surfaces and Essences" co-written by Emmanuel Sander.

It is enjoyable reading and very thorough. Pending revolutionary new insights I might even regard it as conclusive.