Can humans subconsciously predict the future? IMG Via Flickr By:
Julia Mossbridge, M.A., Ph.D. | November 14th 2012 If you enjoy
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Thanks! Including excerpts from the chapter "Physiological
Activity That Seems to Anticipate Future Events," in "The
Science of Psi" edited by Damien Broderick and Ben Goertzel, to
be published in 2013. Can our bodies predict future events that
matter to us, even if we're unaware of it? Some evidence
suggests they can. The basic scientific observation is that
human physiology differs between two situations: just before an
unpredictable exciting/scary event happens (like seeing a
picture of a snake about to strike) versus just before a boring
event happens (like seeing a picture of a lamp). This phenomenon
is sometimes called presentiment (as in "sensing the future"),
but because I'm not entirely sure we're really sensing the
future, I like to call the phenomenon anomalous anticipatory
activity (AAA; imagine the motor club