I find this very, very interesting. Yeah, maybe I'm missing key details of how this works, but it seems to lend credence to the possibility of greater precognition ability in select people. If you have this natural ability that everyone has, maybe it manifests itself in other ways, like when you have precognitive dreams, that is your brain's way of warning you about something that, subconciously, you've pieced together from other things. Or some people have a more developed ability in it and, combined with a higher ability to see patterns and trends, actually have some form of prescience.
I know I've always been able to naturally work my way through the passageways of a crowd better than people with me. It's always seemed like a useful/useless tool, but reading this makes you think twice. Like maybe I've got better precog. than others... And people better than I are those such as racers, basketball players who can hit moving shots...I think certain things that you use your "gut" or instincts or eye, whatever people call it may have a little more behind it. or maybe this just makes you over-think everything ha.
To me this just states that the mind has an incredible ability to calculate likely outcomes and give us, essentially, CGI images 1/10 of a second before we could generate a real time image.
well, you never know... I don't know exactly how this stuff works, but some people could have it better than others. Dodge bullets, miss getting hit by a car,...etc some people do seem to have better "luck" than others sometimes.
OK. First off, if SNL had some decent writers, this could be a decent parody sketch of the sci-fi and/or paranormal crime shows--where the hero can see into the future--1/10 of a second into the future. Back on topic, a related phenomenon that has been on National Geographic Channel AND (I think) Discovery--so it must be real--is how, in times of stress, your brain can slow down everything around you. So if one part of your brain is precognating things and another part is increasing your processing and reacting ability... :hmmm:
Sounds like our brains are wired to guess the future, not actually see it. This looks like just another scientist repackaging his work to make it look amazing and relevant.
And sometimes the guesses are wrong, so it isn't really "the future" at all. I just knew there wouldn't actually be anything to it...
Get back to me when they figure out a way for me to "see" the winning Powerball #'s 24hrs in advance!
Not long ago, if you'd told the general public that a stroke victim could be taught to use a different part of his brain to recover speech and mobility, they'd have laughed. Now it's done as a matter of course. Similar techniques are being tried in autism and neuropathic blindness (where there's nothing wrong with the eye, but with the way the brain processes images). Some sources suggest that up to 80% of the function of the human brain is as yet unexplored. Does that mean that eventually we'll all turn into Nostradamus or be able to pick winning lottery numbers? No. But it does suggest there are untapped abilities that can be hooked onto known abilities into a kind of prescience. It might turn out to be a more highly developed mathematical/probability skill, or something else entirely.
