Good morning Peter.  Yes, yes, we can presume a choice between rational and intuitive thought and we can delude ourselves into believing that rational thought is superior for all circumstances.  It simply put is not.  Check out the book "How We Decide."  The author concludes that the rational mind (and I'll submit that this is simplistic) is capable of juggling about six or seven variables simultaneously because it is a mere linear processor.  On the other hand our intuition is a parallel processor and capable of juggling about 100,000 variables simultaneously (including taking into consideration the input and output of the rational mind).