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Mere computation, the transformation of information, is not enough for the making of meaning.

counts as an “event” at all is purely arbitrary.

The brain has a special appetite for making connections that are not logical, and this paradoxically makes memory strong and makes learned information (semantic memory) and autobiographical events (episodic memories) easily accessed by multiple pathways, multiple linkages in the brain.

trend away from describing natural phenomena in terms of causes and effects to instead describing them in terms of information and its transformations.

causation is, when it comes right down to it, synonymous with computation

it is this basic observation—that precognition is about our personal experiences, not about other people’s experiences or events in objective reality—that made Dunne’s experiment with time so distinctive and valuable in moving us closer to an understanding of how precognition may actually work.

a more compelling way of looking at “archetypal” phenomena like Jung’s synchronicity too. If materially encoded cultural symbols exert some of their causative force or power backwards, through social actors’ unconscious precognitive engagement with them, it would help explain why the universe often seems pre-saturated with meanings that, upon scrut

dreams and precognitive visions represent not just future experiences but also our thoughts and emotions associated with those experiences. This goes a long way toward explaining why they often do not depict events completely accurately or literally.

the wonderful precognition movie Arrival