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There might be another simpler way… what if the Universe and time is nothing but repeating patterns. (Which, truthfully, it is.) Maybe we, as nonseperate from the universe, all matter of the same, have some degree of innate perception that recognizes the future in a pattern.
Maybe that is extrasensory perception, very simply, attunement and reflexive crystallization. I say rexflexive crystallization because that’s the best analogy I can think of to explain it. As we line up to the pattern, the pattern lines up to us and Bam!-- A wave of crystallization…an organic awareness. And in that seed crystal is a self contained time line-- Now, Then, and Before, nondelineated.
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Um, yeah. I cant make a lot of sense out of this, since you seem to be using words with meanings other than the ones found in the dictionary, but let me take a crack at what I think you’re saying:
(Attempted re-write of devilsknew’s position): Assume the universe is deterministic (if you knew the current state of every particle, you could predict it’s entire future course). Therefore we can predict the future based on those particles in and around us, or else intuit the direction things are going in because we have a lot of information already. (End attempted re-write).
Stated very simply, if we drop a rock, we can predict with very high accuracy that it will hit the ground – while it’s still in the air. If we have been told that a family member is going to visit tomorrow, we can predict with a lesser degree of accuracy that they will pass through our door the next day. We can predict things like the sun coming up and the moon’s phases based on our knowledge of their last positions and previous “actions.”
But these aren’t the types of precognition we’re talking about here, although pre-information could explain a lot of supposedly precognitive dreams (oh, I forgot you told me Aunt Gertrude was sick).
We’re talking about predicting things that are distincly NOT the normal pattern of day to day life, from a distance and without previous information. More bluntly put, we’re talking about what psychics claim to be able to do: predict details of the future using pseudoscientific or supernatural means.
The test is simple: have “precogs” write down their predictions ahead of time. If they can “tell” they’re having a precognitive episode, so much the better – we should expect 100% of their predictions to come true. If not, then it hardly matters (since the ability is useless if you don’t know when you’re using it), but if they write down ALL of their dreams/visions/hallucinations/whatever, they should achieve better than chance (and control groups) at predicting things.
This needs to happen over repeated trials, with different people controlling the study, and with the definition of a “match” agreed upon ahead of time. But it’s not hard, so let me know when someone’s actually done it and found results.
