It can be a little bit hard to grasp all of these things, in the end, consciousness is a tricky subject and probably one of the most important obstacles to create self conscious AIs.

About intuition, as I said on the post, I believe it is developed with time. The more knowledge we gather, and the more time we have to arrange that knowledge in our mind, the faster we will be in analyzing circumstances and taking good choices, which can be interpreted as intuition.