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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.

Although precognition often surfaces to awareness in the context of stress and trauma, even death in many cases, I will argue that it really orients us ultimately to life, and to a renewed, intensified awareness of being alive.

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.,

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

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

Precognition operates in the shadow realm of uncertainty. Some things that look very much like precognition may indeed be just coincidence, and there is no way to know for sure.

John Wheeler, who studied under Bohr, underscored that observation not only brings the world into being but actually shapes it—an idea known as the “participatory universe.”

expressed the difference between zero and one. The problem of zero, or nonexistence, obsessed Leibniz. How could zero—pure potential—transform to one, a whole and complete material object? The transition between nothing and something is the central question of…well, everything. All our spiritual and intellectual systems—religion and science, but

In the 1970s, Austrian astrophysicist Erich Jantsch argued that these same basic principles underlie the regularities of social existence too, up to and including the cultural symbol systems used by humans to encode meaningful information and guide our behavior.7 Today, quantum information theory, discussed in the last chapter, is also being