[Mael]

Originally Posted by Fig

In this instance, I can agree with what you're saying.

However, some of our greatest moments of understanding nature were led by man's intuition.

If by definition, intuition is "the ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning", then you'd be incorrect, even more so in modern times.

Most of the greatest moments of understanding nature were led by discovery, experimentation and exhaustive mathematical work. Intuition, similar to the armchair approach, tends to theorize mechanisms, causes and effects through inductive fallacies (see Hume). For example, most people intuitively thought (and still do) that a heavier object would fall faster than a lighter one, until the Tower of Pisa experiments, where Galileo proved otherwise. Intuitive scientific proposals that failed like the eternal universe and luminiferous aether are other more popular examples. In fact, there are more on the Wiki page for Counterintuitive, summed up well here -

Many scientific ideas that are generally accepted by people today were formerly considered to be contrary to intuition and common sense.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterintuitive

Intuition played no part, and is almost entirely negated within the realms of quantum mechanics. Where intuition infers from regularities based on past events, quantum theory showed us the past can be altered (see Quantum eraser experiment & Quantum entanglement).

Originally Posted by Fig

And to make the claim that the brain and the universe share dissimilar functions, is to imply that we fully understand the function of either. Although, I think making a claim of proof based on aesthetic similarity is kinda stupid, we would be equally stupid to denounce all other seemingly radical implications.

This is however, the nature of our western scientific mind state.

I don't need to know everything about a specific person to say that they are good at a certain skill. I'm not assuming we know everything about either the brain or the universe, but I DO know that the brain primarily interprets sensory data gathered through our sensory organs whereas the Universe is an inanimate macroscopic entity that I doubt is sentient, and exists for the sole purpose of containment (specifically to galaxies, see the Containment principle of cosmology).

Good to know you're thinking about these things, though, @Fig.