radical form of what is sometimes called the “social construction of reality” but penetrating to the very heart of matter, space, and time.

I suggest that our most meaningful connections to others and to ideas traverse the Not Yet, made possible by the 4-D nature of our meaning-making brain.

The precognitive brain seems to have a voracious appetite for thoughts and emotions about survival and close calls of one sort or another.

the “past” and the “future” are iteratively reworked and enfolded through the iterative practices of spacetimemattering

There are good evolutionary reasons why strong emotion might play an important role in precognition (or James Carpenter’s “first sight”): It needs to orient us to new information relevant to our survival so that we can update our knowledge about the world in a fruitful way.

For a piece of information to be meaningful, it needs to be reliably paired with another piece of information that gives it context or serves as its cipher.

The theory, briefly, is that precognition is not a matter of seeing or knowing objective events in some generalized future time but is the accessing of knowledge a person will acquire in his or her own future, often directly related to some rewarding or troubling learning experience ahead.

Meaning, while often confused with information, really refers to the value of a piece of information to some agent (conscious or not) who can use it to convey a message or otherwise effect some change.

This after-the-fact selection of some of the light to measure again is known in these experiments as post-selection—a key concept that we will be returning to throughout the remainder of this book.