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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.

Israeli physicist named Yakir Aharonov basically agreed with Einstein about God not playing dice, and he proposed that the future is the hidden variable underlying quantum strangeness. Individual particles, such as those photons passing through the slits of the double-slit experiment, are actually influenced by what will happen to them next (i.e.,

Individuals’ personal accounts and recollections of anomalies lack the reliability and replicability that are essential to the scientific method, and they cannot be supported by significance tests, but they can reveal the character of precognition as it shapes our lives in a way laboratory experiments cannot.

We precognize our highly biased hindsight, taking us deep into a kind of recursive or fractal, M. C. Escher territory.

unlike memory for past experiences, we have no context for recognizing information from our future, let alone interpreting or evaluating it, and thus will seldom even notice its existence. We would also have little ability to directly search our memory for things future, the way we can rummage in our mental attic for information we know we acquired

Rather than imagine hard-to-define consciousness or invisible morphic fields driving the emergence of life, a simpler answer is liable to come from retrocausation, the ability of future states of systems to influence prior states.

Aharonov and his colleague Jeff Tollaksen write that time-symmetric reformulations of quantum mechanics change the meaning of uncertainty from ‘capriciousness’ to exactly what is needed in order that the future can be relevant to the present, without violating causality, thereby providing a new perspective on the question ‘Why does God play dice?’

The past never ceases being made by the future, and we ourselves never cease being made in the intra-actions that create this new knowledge. We and time are all of a piece—an

We should not confuse how difficult we find imagining a thing with how difficult nature finds accomplishing it.