Of all the forms of High Weirdiness that are claimed to have some degree of scientific validation, the one that I find most difficult to believe is precognition--the idea that it is possible to see into the future in some way that is inexplicable through ordinary means.
My own philosophical presupposition is that as the future has no actual existence, there is nothing there to intuit by so-called psychic means.
But the mathematics here seems to prove that it is a reality.
Well, I do posit that it is possible for there to be extrasensory perception of things that are far away in space and also those that are in the past, for the past does have a certain concreteness even if it only exists as a sort of appendage to the present.
As I understand it, the "presentiment" effects that are claimed are only for things that are a few seconds into the future (but which the subjects can sense quicker than it would be possible for the nervous system to communicate to the brain.)
I submit that what is actually happening is a kind of extra-sensory grasp of the present or the immediate past and an extrapolation from it into the immediate future, based also on the a subtle power of the human mind to immediately grasp, process and project patterns of cause-and-effect, a power that is most clearly seen in autistic savants; for example, some can tell you in an instant what day of the week that April 17th will fall on in the year 3170 A.D. Whether that power itself is to be considered extra-sensory or, as they say these days, paranormal, is another question.
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