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... it's been hard to get anyone except my best friend to have an honest discussion about this.

And it's going to be utterly impossible to have any sort of discussion here. Heck, I'm surprised that even the word "coincidence" was not flamed. Anything that deviates in any way from Scientific beliefs will be related to philosophy/supernatural/metaphysics and will be summarily dismissed.

Keep it to yourself. The sharing of such thoughts, ideas or beliefs serves no purpose other than to inflame the Philistines ("a person who is lacking in or hostile or smugly indifferent to cultural values, intellectual pursuits, aesthetic refinement, etc., or is contentedly commonplace in ideas and tastes.) http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Philistines

Materialistic Rationalization is all they know and all they want to know and hear from others.

You want to have an honest discussion here? Here??? Ha!!! Hahahahahahahahaha.

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I don't believe it's Precognition, but rather a "six sense". I've experienced tons of times where I'm doing an activity, and then I immediately turn and look at someone out of nowhere, kind of subconciously(im not thinking of looking at then), I've only noticed that a few times, after I looked at said person. It's like, you know when someone is around you. That's happened to me tons of times, like I'd happen to look at a certain spot, and then someone would arrive from that spot seconds later..I think that happens to most people, anyway that's what I'd call the "six sense"

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I don't believe in that. I guess it's just some phenomenon we experience where our mind thinks that certain events happened before others and actually get them wrong.

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I know that feeling, too.
However, most time of having it was during my childhood.
Now, I have it rarely.

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it is scientifically proven that humans are very much bad decision makers a lot of the time making rash quick guesswork mostly instead of well thought out decisions when on the move day to day in our fast paced lives.

so those few that have a genius for good quick decision making, statistically better than most others, maybe these rascals think they have got some sort of precognition ?

steve jobs seemed to have had the quality of knowing what people would want in the future with his insight in to new product trends often being first to deliver, and turning apple around as a near bankrupt company into at one point the biggest firm in the world pipping exxon into 2nd place

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Quote from: noviapriani on July 22, 2014, 07:37:19 AM

I think precognition happens when the person's brain goes into a very specific scenario about something that could happen, and then what happens has a look and feel that is very close to that preconceived scenario. Because the scenario is still stored in memory, it "comes back" as a memory. Since it appears to your conscious self as a memory, then it must have been a "premonition" or whatever. Same thing with deja vu. Your mind plays out something very detailed, it happens, then the detailed memory comes back with a "woah, I was just there!"

Seems like a reasonable explanation.And how often does "precognition" and "deja vu" happen? 1% of the time, maybe? That is how we know it is just coincidence.

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Quote from: sana8410 on July 22, 2014, 07:46:01 AM

Quote from: Rigon on July 22, 2014, 07:33:34 AM

Pretty sad no one told you your grandmother had passed away for a week.

Made me think of this though.
Maybe around 2002 was out in CO for a week visiting a lady friend. Was there for 2 days and just felt odd about being there. Something just made me feel like I should be home Couldn't explain it. Decided to change my flight and return home the next day.
Returned home without telling anyone in the family. Got in late and everyone was asleep. Within minutes of walking in and putting down my luggage the phone rang. Was my aunt calling to tell my mother that her father had just passed.

And if you got that strange feeling and didn't go home, the next day they would have told you about the call and you would have said "I knew I should have gone home!"

And if you got that strange feeling and didn't go home and he didn't die, you would have

A) forgotten about the strange feeling and it wouldn't have been strange at all, or
B) found something else to attribute the feeling to.

I'm missing the point of your anecdotal story. What would have been interesting is if you would have gotten a strange feeling "oh my god my grandfather just died!" and then the phone rang saying he died. But getting a strange feeling then finding something to attribute it to isn't strange at all.

I wonder how many times we get 'strange' feelings and actually nothing bad or strange happens. We then would of course just discard that feeling and wouldn't even remember it being there in the first place. Coincidences just strike our mind because they're remarkable when they happen. The odds of something remarkable or unusual happening aren't that small. Due to the many things that may happen, it's not far fetched that something actually happens.

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I've read that the Aborigine believe that our dreams are a mixture of our past, present and future.

Not sure if I believe that but it could explain feelings like deja vu.

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Quote from: Rigon on July 22, 2014, 07:33:34 AM

Pretty sad no one told you your grandmother had passed away for a week.

Made me think of this though.
Maybe around 2002 was out in CO for a week visiting a lady friend. Was there for 2 days and just felt odd about being there. Something just made me feel like I should be home Couldn't explain it. Decided to change my flight and return home the next day.
Returned home without telling anyone in the family. Got in late and everyone was asleep. Within minutes of walking in and putting down my luggage the phone rang. Was my aunt calling to tell my mother that her father had just passed.

And if you got that strange feeling and didn't go home, the next day they would have told you about the call and you would have said "I knew I should have gone home!"

And if you got that strange feeling and didn't go home and he didn't die, you would have

A) forgotten about the strange feeling and it wouldn't have been strange at all, or
B) found something else to attribute the feeling to.

I'm missing the point of your anecdotal story. What would have been interesting is if you would have gotten a strange feeling "oh my god my grandfather just died!" and then the phone rang saying he died. But getting a strange feeling then finding something to attribute it to isn't strange at all.

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I think precognition happens when the person's brain goes into a very specific scenario about something that could happen, and then what happens has a look and feel that is very close to that preconceived scenario. Because the scenario is still stored in memory, it "comes back" as a memory. Since it appears to your conscious self as a memory, then it must have been a "premonition" or whatever. Same thing with deja vu. Your mind plays out something very detailed, it happens, then the detailed memory comes back with a "woah, I was just there!"

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Pretty sad no one told you your grandmother had passed away for a week.

Made me think of this though.
Maybe around 2002 was out in CO for a week visiting a lady friend. Was there for 2 days and just felt odd about being there. Something just made me feel like I should be home Couldn't explain it. Decided to change my flight and return home the next day.
Returned home without telling anyone in the family. Got in late and everyone was asleep. Within minutes of walking in and putting down my luggage the phone rang. Was my aunt calling to tell my mother that her father had just passed.

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Having precognition implies the universe has determined outcome and there is no free will for any living organism.

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Quote from: umair127 on July 21, 2014, 11:40:11 AM

Quote from: zolace on July 21, 2014, 11:33:43 AM

Humans are very repetitive creatures. We do the same things daily. What you described as precognition is really just something you were expecting to happen that did happen because you have experience living life day to day. Work is the same every day. "Oh man, it's going to boring today." Work is getting harder. "Oh man, it's going to be a bad day at work today." Friends are expecting to hang out with you. "I'll have fun today." Friends are too busy. "Life at work is hard and I have no one to socialize with today." It's all how you look at what happens to you daily that you start realizing patterns and piecing it all together. It's not some sixth sense.

I.e. it's patterns that we begin to recognize after 20, 30, 40, 50 years of repetition? Kind of like when people think they have bad luck, and thus they will?

Exactly. It's patterns that you recognize. After a while, you start to guess what will happen. Sometimes you are right and sometimes you are wrong. But when you are right you become surprised. So yes, you get used to repetition in life and start to guess what will happen.

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Quote from: zolace on July 21, 2014, 11:33:43 AM

Humans are very repetitive creatures. We do the same things daily. What you described as precognition is really just something you were expecting to happen that did happen because you have experience living life day to day. Work is the same every day. "Oh man, it's going to boring today." Work is getting harder. "Oh man, it's going to be a bad day at work today." Friends are expecting to hang out with you. "I'll have fun today." Friends are too busy. "Life at work is hard and I have no one to socialize with today." It's all how you look at what happens to you daily that you start realizing patterns and piecing it all together. It's not some sixth sense.

I.e. it's patterns that we begin to recognize after 20, 30, 40, 50 years of repetition? Kind of like when people think they have bad luck, and thus they will?

zolace

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Humans are very repetitive creatures. We do the same things daily. What you described as precognition is really just something you were expecting to happen that did happen because you have experience living life day to day. Work is the same every day. "Oh man, it's going to boring today." Work is getting harder. "Oh man, it's going to be a bad day at work today." Friends are expecting to hang out with you. "I'll have fun today." Friends are too busy. "Life at work is hard and I have no one to socialize with today." It's all how you look at what happens to you daily that you start realizing patterns and piecing it all together. It's not some sixth sense.

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The math suggests a world WITHOUT these kinds of coincidences would be special, but what you described isn't abnormal.

Precognition doesn't exist.

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