Anticipate [an-tis-uh-peyt] (verb) - to know of (something) before it manifests
Is it possible to know the future before it happens? Precognition, also called future sight,
refers to perception that involves the acquisition or effect of future information that cannot be deduced
from presently available and normally acquired sense-based information or laws of physics and/or nature.
The related terms, premonition and presentiment refer to information about future events that is perceived
as emotions. The terms are usually used to denote a seemingly parapsychological or extrasensory process of perception,
including clairvoyance. Psychological processes have also explained the phenomena.
Precognition can be conceived as an extraordinary process of clairvoyance, involving no direct perception of the future.
If, as is offered by the philosophy of determinism, all future events are determined by present conditions, then it can be suggested that it is clairvoyance of all the
relevant present conditions that permits one to know their future outcomes. Alternatively, if somebody in the present is aware of what will happen in the future, then
it can be suggested that it is telepathy of that information that grants oneself a like knowledge of the future. "Seeing into the future" can also be conceived as not
a direct perception of a future event, but only a perception of one's own future experience of that event.
As with other forms of extrasensory perception, the existence of precognition is not accepted by the mainstream
scientific community, because no replicable demonstration has ever been achieved. Scientific investigation of
extrasensory perception (ESP) is complicated by the definition which implies that the phenomena go against established
principles of science. Specifically, precognition would violate the principle that an effect cannot occur before its cause.
|
|