Something that ‘just comes to you’ - what I would call an ‘intuition’. Which seems to fit with the original post’s usage and the example of the “the structure of benzene came in a dream”.
Something done ‘automatically/without thinking’ but has been learned i.e. the example of a chemist being able to recognise and represent benzene is not an intuition. It is knowledge that originated from an intuition.
The issue comes with the usage of “intuitively” in the comments with the examples given. The difference between something learned and something spontaneous/organic that occurs.
e.g. The person that can pick up an instrument and play it without prior training is using intuition, an instinctive feel for how to make it work versus the person that’s practised for years, conscious of their actions until they are so well trained they can play automatically.
That all sounds like part of the same cluster of mental movements to me, i.e. all the stuff that isn’t deliberative.
Talking about “intuition” I distinguish between:
Something that ‘just comes to you’ - what I would call an ‘intuition’. Which seems to fit with the original post’s usage and the example of the “the structure of benzene came in a dream”.
Something done ‘automatically/without thinking’ but has been learned i.e. the example of a chemist being able to recognise and represent benzene is not an intuition. It is knowledge that originated from an intuition.
The issue comes with the usage of “intuitively” in the comments with the examples given. The difference between something learned and something spontaneous/organic that occurs.
e.g. The person that can pick up an instrument and play it without prior training is using intuition, an instinctive feel for how to make it work versus the person that’s practised for years, conscious of their actions until they are so well trained they can play automatically.