Is Precognition Real? Cornell University Lab Releases Powerful New Evidence

H+ ^ | November 4, 2010 | Ben Goertzel

[The Comedian]

Is Precognition Real? Cornell University Lab Releases Powerful New Evidence that the Human Mind can Perceive the Future Written By: Ben Goertzel Date Published: November 4, 2010 According to today’s conventional scientific wisdom, time flows strictly forward — from the past to the future through the present. We can remember the past, and we can predict the future based on the past (albeit imperfectly) — but we can’t perceive the future.

But if the recent data from the lab of Prof. Daryl Bem at Cornell University is correct, conventional scientific wisdom may need some corrections on this particular point.

In a research paper titled Feeling the Future, recently accepted for publication in the prestigious Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Bem presents some rather compelling empirical evidence that in some cases — and with weak but highly statistically significant accuracy – many human beings can directly perceive the future. Not just predict it based on the past.

[The Comedian]

This is precisely the foundation upon which Clif High's Web bots are reportedly operating.

My toys too.

[I cannot think of a name]

I predicted that zero would be the worst president in history before he took office - does that count?

(Sure wish I could pick next weeks lotto numbers instead.)

[Hoosier-Daddy]

I get flashes of precognition all the time. Problem is I have no control of it.

[Pollster1]

(Sure wish I could pick next weeks lotto numbers instead.)

I sure wish you had been wrong about the thug in our White House.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

If Clif is correct, all hell is about to break loose.

On the other hand...

[CynicalBear]

That’s just what we need for the masses to justify their belief in the “new prophets” about to emerge.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

For all our scientific knowledge, not one bit of it explains consciousness, which is intimately intertwined with quantum mechanics, and we do not understand one shred of quantum mechanics, we merely observe it and use the observations.

Time is an illusion of the hologram that is the universe.

[The Comedian]

I-knew-you-were-going-to-post-that ping.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[DManA]

When I was a teen I stayed with family friends while my parents took a vacation. I was convinced that I had dreamed of the house and situation in some years before I ever saw that house.

I am open to the idea that this was a psychological illusion but I tell you I remembered the dream clearly and it was perfect in every detail. It sure seemed real.

[SonOfDarkSkies]

Time is an illusion of the hologram that is the universe.

Can we see your proofs?;-)

[UCANSEE2]

Time is an illusion of the hologram that is the universe.

Where did you get that idea?

"Is the Universe a Big Hologram? This Device Could Find Out"

[The Comedian]

For all our scientific knowledge, not one bit of it explains consciousness, which is intimately intertwined with quantum mechanics, and we do not understand one shred of quantum mechanics, we merely observe it and use the observations.

Time is an illusion of the hologram that is the universe.

100% agree. You and I would have a grand time over adult beverages.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[The Comedian]

I get flashes of precognition all the time. Problem is I have no control of it.

Yup, that seems to be the nature of our ability. That's why it is important to aggregate it across as large a group as possible.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Professor Daryl Bem in his Lab

[GOPJ]

If the future is already in the past - it limits control...

[Quix]

GREAT ARTICLE N GRAPHS.

Interesting how the RC’s are highest of all the religious categories.

[null and void]

If Clif The Comedian is correct, all hell is about to break loose.

[oh8eleven]

This 2010 article jumps all around time wise. Cherry picking the data?

• "A 2002 survey by the US National Science Foundation ..."
• A 1996 Gallop Poll in one chart;
• A 1979 chart below it.

I also note this article was written by the guy on the right.
"weak but highly statistically significant accuracy" indeed ...

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

This is precisely what Richard Feynmann was talking about in Cargo Cult Science. If you believe in psi, you’ll believe in anything, including but not limited to “Climate Change”.

[houeto]

Thanks for the ping. For the next ten days, ours ears are to the ground.