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The two commentaries on “Varieties of Clinical Intuition: Explicit, Implicit, and Nonlocal Neurodynamics” approach the subject from radically different perspectives. While de Peyer focuses on clinical aspects of utilizing local and nonlocal informational channels within analytic work, Butler brings up wider socio-political implications involved in the collaboration between psychoanalysis and the natural sciences. We affirm Butler’s social justice agenda while taking issue with his unwitting form of reductionism inherent in his post-modernist argument for hermeneutics in rejection of science’s role in psychoanalysis and confusion about different levels of self-organization in informational dynamics. We are entirely in agreement with de Peyer’s suggestion that affect is the connecting thread between all forms of intuition, including its uncanny dimensions. Our fractal epistemology supports her suggestion of fuzzy boundaries between local-interactive and nonlocal-participatory forms of intuitive knowing. We end with de Peyer’s questions surrounding the clinical value of intuitive information sharing, methods for its enhancement, and the importance of clinical judgment in working with “extraordinary knowing.”