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To: BenLurkin
"This is the basis of Bayesian theories of how we perceive the world – that is, the brain makes inferences about the world around us based on statistics and probabilities on what is likely to occur."

I think this explains at least some incidents of precognition. If I live near the train tracks, and everyday at 1:00 p.m. a train rolls by that makes the whole house rumble, I subconsciously log that. Suppose a friend drops by at 12:45 p.m. and I offer him a glass of water while we're sitting down visiting. At 12:57 p.m. I note that he sets the glass near the edge of a table. I warn him that he needs to move it.

I did so, because I "foresaw" the glass being rattled off the table with the impending passage of the train, but there really was nothing mystical or supernatural about it. Somewhere between my conscious and subconscious mind, my knowledge and past experience simply connected a few easy dots that allowed me to make the logical conclusion that the glass would be shaken off the table with the impending passage of the train.

I suspect some, if not many people with so-called precognitive abilities simply have a combination of experiences, knowledge and subconscious abilities that allow them to connect more dots than the "average" person and make logical extrapolations a bit farther out than the rest of us.

24 posted on 10/14/2019 11:26:24 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Joe 6-pack
I suspect some, if not many people with so-called precognitive abilities simply have a combination of experiences, knowledge and subconscious abilities that allow them to connect more dots than the "average" person and make logical extrapolations a bit farther out than the rest of us.

Indeed, some can connect the dots, say attendance at Trump rallies + buffoon Dem candidates + lying media and fake polls + media panic = Trump re-election

33 posted on 10/14/2019 12:42:00 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Joe 6-pack

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46 posted on 10/25/2019 3:33:12 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE
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To: Joe 6-pack

I’ll see stupid stuff in real life and then I recall a dream that I had recently - usually the night before. Just yesterday I took the dog out for a walk and the leash had a knot in it. The dream the night before I was reeling up a cable and had to stop quickly as there was a knot in the cable.

It happens so often that I wonder if I just don’t have a thousand dreams about dumb stuff like that, and then the following day something triggers my memory of it. It probably happens once or twice a week.

Twice that I recall I had very detailed dreams of an event. One was of a dumb thing, but very long and detailed and it all matched up. The other was of my dreaming of a ski race that I was preparing for - that one predicted my placement in the race correctly and the sequence of the places. Weird. Although with the ski race one our coach had us visualizing the race as we practiced every day, visualize the finish line, the hills, etc. So that one makes a bit of sense being so focused on one thing for so long.


77 posted on 10/27/2019 1:03:44 AM PDT by 21twelve (!)
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