posted on Mar, 5 2009 @ 01:13 AM
The brain computes value-based expectations so rapidly that they are constantly being reflected in a state of mind at a very precise level prior to
the physical occurrence of the actual event. This doesn't mean information is physically being processed from the future. That's technically
impossible. Our ability to approximate the future is overwhelmingly accurate for vital evolutionary reasons.
It also has to do with our definition of time. In reality, there is no such thing as physically demarcated instances of time and space. We create a
perception of symbolic "time" because we can only deal with information as it is being processed. To tell your friend that a house, which
burned down twenty years ago is currently consumed in flames just wouldn't make for a comprehensible conversation. To say you are still six years old
wouldn't much make sense either. But are we still young, are houses still raging that have subsided years ago? Unfortunately, we can't perceive
information in four dimensions. Whatever kind of a brain could accomplish that would look biiizzaarre.
Physical properties are in constant flux. We'll never really know why this is quite so, exactly... nonetheless, if you imagine the universe as a
giant blob of perfectly transparent jell-o, then observable matter are the chunks of fruit being suspended in it (the particles making up matter are
so dense they are observable to the human eye). This can be anything from people, plants, mountains, to fire, water and asteroids... anything you can
see are the chunks of fruit. Everything else is immensely uncompressed. Have you ever held up an almond in front of you and asked how its existence is
physically possible? Isn't it just remarkable that so much matter could become so dense that it appears right before your eyes as distinguishable
from the rest of matter?
Within any physical field, there is no such thing as absolute space. Since the observable universe is one physical large field, then anything that is
not within this field is not in the universe. That is what Einstein conjectured, and it was so credible that all of modern physics is now set on a
path to prove his theory. Space is just a linguistic symbol, a conceptual construct invented to allow us communicate. Our senses are definitely
restricted by our biology, and so it wouldn't be a far stretch to make an visual assumption about the existence of space, because there are very few
particles making it up. It looks like nothing, and nothing looks rather uniform. So wherever we see this "uniform nothing", we attribute it to a
lack of existence, or some inter-dimensional medium we all pass through (this is invalid).
Information is just the recognition of the "present state (at the point of observation) of a constantly changing system."
With the laws of the universe being as they are, as described by Newton and Einstein, there are only so many possible configurations of matter. Now,
if the brain can imagine more than all the possible configurations of a thermodynamic, relativistic universe then it's not a far stretch to assume
people can predict future states of information, or something very close to it, before it actually occurs.
What's significant is that these people only have access to partial predictions about the future, and they usually manifest in the form of unfamiliar
emotional feelings; they don't see the future in full, vivid color. That means that while they could be predicting events similar to the ones which
eventually occur, they aren't actually, physically processing information that doesn't exist yet. That's just not possible.
I believe evolved, predictive reasoning is responsible for the acquisition of information that is similar, while not physically exact (exactness might
not even be a real condition), to a set of possible future states of information. Since the set of all possible future states of information is
limited (due to known physical laws), and we assume the brain can imagine states of information that might possibly exist beyond the thermodynamic,
relativist limits of existence (what we call our universe), from which our biology itself evolved and is brutally subject to, then it might be
plausible any range of predictions can be made with some accuracy, and that sometimes these predictions exist in the faintest states of our
unconscious mind, and that even further they might be manifested in the form of an unruly stomach ache, or an intuitively "bad" feeling.
[edit on 5-3-2009 by cognoscente]