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hi i'm eric worgo and i'm going to talk

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to you today about dream premonitions

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guilt there was a screech of breaks

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followed by a terrible crunch of metal

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on metal and shattered glass

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steve bolted up in bed his heart racing

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it was a little after midnight somebody

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outside needed help

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steve lived near a busy intersection in

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downtown seattle he ran out his front

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door into the street and looked around

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nothing there were no smashed cars there

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was no evidence of any accident at all

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all was quiet

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i was dumbfounded he wrote to me in an

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email it didn't feel like a dream it was

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much more specific

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still i put myself back in bed and told

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myself it was probably a dream however

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unique it felt

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steve went to work the next day and

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forgot about his strange awakening in

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the middle of the night he came home

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that evening went through his usual

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routine and went to sleep about 11 pm

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an hour or two later it happened again

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he was jolted awake by the same violent

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screech of breaks the same impact of

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metal on metal

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it was like a bizarre replay of the

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previous night i distinctly remember

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being confused he said is this last

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night why is this repeating what's going

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on

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streets shouting oh my god somebody get

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help

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at this point he was rocked by a wave of

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adrenaline all at once i realized this

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was in fact a different night than the

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previous one he said

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this time the accident was real

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he ran outside and saw that a car had

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been broadsided by another vehicle going

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through the intersection it had rolled

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several times and landed in his

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neighbor's yard

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he learned later that a young man in the

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steve told me he was profoundly affected

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by the incident brooding on it the whole

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week afterward his thoughts included a

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feeling that i could have prevented it

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but didn't

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this is a very common train of thought

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in those who discover belatedly that

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they have had a premonition of death or

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disaster all steve could do was write a

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letter to the city about the poor

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visibility of the signs approaching his

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intersection to make it safer that was a

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meaningful act that may well have saved

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future lives but it still couldn't bring

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back the young life that had been cut

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intimations visions and dreams about

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tragedy were among the first psychical

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experiences studied in the 1880s by the

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newly founded society for psychical

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research in england its co-founder

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philologist frederick myers theorized

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that extreme trauma rippled through a

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subliminal psychic ether from mind to

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mind

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it was myers who first coined the term

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telepathy to describe the way thoughts

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could be transmitted between people

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especially between friends and loved

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ones when one individual was in crisis

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since people sometimes had visions or

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dreams of these crises before they

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actually occurred it seemed that

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telepathy could also somehow transcend

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the linear flow of time as we usually

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later in the 1930s the rhines and other

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researchers in the newly scientized

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field of parapsychology observed similar

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similar temporal displacement in

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experiments that had been designed to

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study telepathy or clairvoyance

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consequently the rubric of precognition

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was added as the third member of the

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triumvirate of phenomena or abilities

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known as extra sensory perception or esp

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precognition is defined as seeing

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knowing or pre-responding to a future

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event or experience and encompasses

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several vernacular terms including

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premonition what steve arguably

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as well as prophecy and pre-sentiment

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the latter unconsciously pre-responding

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to future experiences has a large body

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of recent research supporting it most

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famously the growing body of studies

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showing physiological presponses to

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imminent stimuli

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and studies of behavioral presponding

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such as the feeling the future research

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of cornell psychologist daryl bem

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i prophesy that we'll see further

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evidence of this

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the assumption that esp reflects a kind

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of perception outside the five senses

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has governed much theorizing in the

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field since the rhine's day and has

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implicitly shaped much research into

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these phenomena

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true to the implication of that word we

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readily imagine that precognition along

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with telepathy and clairvoyance or

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remote viewing reflect some kind of

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information acquisition from objective

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i think a strong case can be made

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went one too far i think a strong case

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can be made however that whatever

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telepathy and remote viewing may be

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precognition is something different and

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it is not perception it is as its name

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implies a kind of cognition

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and it doesn't reflect any connection to

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future objective events at all or

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connection to other minds as myers

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thought but is instead connection to the

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individual's future thoughts and

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feelings about situations they will

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directly experience or events that they

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will learn about conventionally for

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elsewhere i have outlined a framework

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for understanding how this likely works

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to briefly summarize the argument

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unpredictable future rewards and

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upheavals it is likely made possible by

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the nervous system's pre-responsiveness

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to its future states

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the vast mnemonic capabilities of the

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mammalian and especially human brain

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amplify this presponsiveness almost like

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organism's own future

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converging lines of evidence point to a

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likely mechanistic explanation for this

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pre-sponsoredness to our future

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experiences

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will likely turn out to play an

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important role but i do not believe it

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is a matter of what is often called

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non-local consciousness or nor the

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brain's entanglement with the wider

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the retro causation paradigm suggests

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something different it has been shown in

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recent experiments utilizing a technique

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called weak measurement that interaction

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between particles influence those

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particles prior states it means that

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particles carry information in both

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directions across their world lines

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account for apparent randomness the

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the retro causal interpretation is one

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theoretical framework now taken

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seriously within a larger rubric that is

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lately being called super determinism

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entanglement within this paradigm

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retrograde influence could potentially

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be made coherent and scaled up in

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systems of entangled particles such as

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evidence quantum processes are now known

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a quantum computer or to have quantum

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consciousness in quantum biology has

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microtubules the work of stuart hameroff

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necessary to understand consciousness to

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precognition appears to be a largely

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unconscious in nature but microtubules

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could turn out to be the key here

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because they happen to control synaptic

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plasticity basic for learning and memory

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the study of precognition in dreams

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strongly suggests precognition is a form

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of memory

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dreams jw dunn discovered nearly a

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century ago that we precognize personal

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experiences not objective events and

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that's the same as memory

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event and how we learn of it dreams

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ways we precognize things that matter to

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and again this is just like memory

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or negative emotion just like memory

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it operates on association just as

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strongly influenced by olfactory cues

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able to study that question directly

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while it can and frequently does intrude

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not a conscious deliberate directed

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thought process however again it's

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mostly unconscious and thus is most

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readily accessed in dreams or unaltered

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forms of autobiographical memory is that

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with precognition we cannot engage in

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when information refluxes from the

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future we don't recognize it as

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transmission from elsewhere or other

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minds rather than a product of our own

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because it remains so counter-intuitive

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inability to engage in source monitoring

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intelligence or like some trans personal

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principle like synchronicity like the

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premonitions are mostly only recognized

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is so often misrecognized or

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unrecognized is that it is subject to

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many distortions of content including

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symbolic discord distortions familiar

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from the psychoanalytic literature

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plus i suggest that psychoanalysis is

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another theoretical toolkit having great

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relevance

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in fact i argue that in his

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metapsychology or theory of the

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unconscious conscious relationship which

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he likened to an iceberg

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sigmund freud unknowingly developed a

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framework and theory for understanding

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precognition misrecognizing his findings

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as the rule of the neurotic mind by past

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traumas

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we just need to turn his famous iceberg

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on its side

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along the x-axis of time with the

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submerged portion of the iceberg

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pointing to the future

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sometimes traumas are displaced in time

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from our future and this i am going to

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argue is what we see in premonitions of

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death and disaster like what steve

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one of the implications of freud's

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theory of trauma as formulated in his

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book beyond the pleasure principle

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is that what is traumatic in a trauma is

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not the event itself

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but the traumatized individual's

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thoughts and feelings about it afterward

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and part of what is so unbearable about

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those thoughts and feelings is that they

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are mixed

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they contain inappropriate or

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unacceptable positive elements along

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with the appropriate and acceptable

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negative ones

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the hidden rewards buried in what seem

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like objectively awful occurrences helps

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explain the persistence and power of

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thoughts about events that objectively

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one would think would be best forgotten

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extreme guilt hovers over many traumas

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because the rewards derived from

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objectively bad events may be morally

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unacceptable or shameful to the

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individual consequently we repress them

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this is particularly clear when the

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trauma involves others deaths

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one thinks here of ambivalent emotions

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toward family members or associates that

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have died a sibling slightly glad their

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rival for parental attention is out of

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the way or a friend slightly glad that a

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rival for the affections of a third

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party is no longer in the picture

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this is the sort of unconscious soap

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opera that was common in freud's case

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studies

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but there is a bigger reward implicit in

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the death of another person which

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writers in the existentialist tradition

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like ernest becker later highlighted and

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is perhaps the biggest reward of all to

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an organism geared for survival as all

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organisms are

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visible signs of others deaths remind us

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of our own survival i'm still alive i'm

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still here it didn't happen to me

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aristotle wrote luck is when the guy

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next to you gets hit with an arrow

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the important thing to note is that this

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is crucially different from nobody

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getting hit with an arrow

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information is fundamentally built on

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contrasts one versus zero spin up versus

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spin down linguistic signs built from

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distinctive features like phonemes and

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so on

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i survived is a thought that is only

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possible to have within the framework of

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a somebody didn't survive signal if only

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in one's imagination

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there's no i'm still alive signal

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embedded in the placid everyday state of

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nothing bad happening to anybody

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i propose that the thought but i

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survived

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is the central message from one's future

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self that is conveyed in a premonition

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of death or disaster

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the paradoxical reward of being a

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survivor coupled with associative guilt

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is the motor of these phenomena

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let's look at one well documented and

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much discussed case of a dream

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premonition involving a loved one's

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death that i believe perfectly

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the journalist and novelist mark twain

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was a prominent american member of

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frederick meyer's spr

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all through his life he had experienced

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premonitions instances of what he

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interpreted as telepathy or what he

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called mental telegraphy and baffling

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impossible coincidences of the sort that

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carl jung would later call synchronicity

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books on esp commonly feature

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premonitions of the rich and famous and

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one of twain's dreams has become a

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modern staple

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although it happened long before he had

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adopted his journalistic pen name when

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he was just a 23 year old mississippi

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river steamboat pilot in training named

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samuel clemens

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in 1818 samuel secured i'm sorry 1858

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samuel secured a job for his 19 year old

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younger brother henry as a mud clerk

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aboard the steamboat he was working on

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the ss pennsylvania

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one day when the young men were ashore

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and staying with their older sister

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pamela's family in saint louis

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samuel awoke from a startling dream of

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henry's dead body laid out in a metal

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coffin that was propped on two chairs

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with a bouquet of white roses and a

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single red rose on his chest

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in the dream henry was wearing a suit of

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when twain dictated this recollection to

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his stenographer late in his life for

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the purposes of his autobiography he

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said he was so convinced by the dream

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that he rose and hurried to attend his

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brother's wake only gradually realizing

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as he did so that it had been just a

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dream

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his niece annie later related the story

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somewhat differently and somewhat more

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realistically samuel had been napping

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during the day she said it was not a

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night dream

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and he came out of the room where he had

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been dozing and told the family henry

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included about his vivid dream and how

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disturbed he was by it

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his family members thought it was silly

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to take a dream so seriously she said

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[Music]

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the brothers then shipped out on the

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pennsylvania south toward new orleans

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where samuel was made to stay ashore

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after a fight with the boat's pilot

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with henry aboard the riverboat made its

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run back north and then samuel received

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the horrible news that a boiler

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explosion on the boat had killed many of

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the crew and passengers near memphis

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samuel hurried to memphis where he sat

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with his severely burned brother who

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died that night from an overdose of

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morphine

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the next morning samuel visited the room

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where many of the dead were laid out in

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coffins and he was astonished to see

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henry laid out in one of his suits that

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henry had borrowed when they were in st

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louis

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all of the other bodies were in white

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pine caskets but the nurses impressed by

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henry's stoicism with his terrible burns

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had pitched in to buy him a metal one

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twain recalled that while he was

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standing over the casket a nurse entered

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and placed a bouquet of white flowers

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with a single red rose in it on henry's

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chest

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later at the wake at their sister's home

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he found the casket resting resting

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now people will call this a premonition

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of samuel's brother's death

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but it is important to note the dream

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did not represent the death per se

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nor henry's excruciating pain after

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being burned the sort of thing that

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myers assumed powered telepathy

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nor was it about the highly entropic

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boiler explosion

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it was about seeing his brother lying

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dead in a coffin wearing his own

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borrowed clothes

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as with so many other premonitions such

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as steve's dream about the fatal car

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accident on his street clemen's dream

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was actually a premonition of being

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alive in the presence of someone else

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who has met a terrible and untimely end

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it was not a premonition of his

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brother's death it was a premonition of

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given the singular circumstances of

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henry's death

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dying as a result of injuries stained on

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the pennsylvania after samuel had been

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made to stay on shore and then the fact

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that he was buried in samuel's clothing

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how can that sense of aristotelian luck

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or fate favoring samuel over his brother

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not have crossed the future writer's

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mind as he stood in that room over his

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brother's body

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for samuel's unconscious if not his

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conscious reflection the meaning of this

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awful moment would have been

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it could have just as easily have been

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me or it should have been me i suggest

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that is exactly that equivalent signal

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of survivor's guilt as well as

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existential reward that might have been

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displaced in time to spark a dream some

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days earlier

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again because of the contrasted nature

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of signification any powerful signal of

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one's own survival is liable to come at

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the cost of guilt

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twain felt guilty the rest of his life

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for inviting henry to work on the

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pennsylvania and for not insisting that

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his brother remain with him in new

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freud was famously cynical about human

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nature in an essay he wrote after the

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start of the first world war he wrote

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that if we are to be judged by our

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unconscious wishes we ourselves are

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nothing but a band of murderers

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ignoring its uncanny relation to a

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subsequent tragedy he would likely have

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found a way to interpret samuel clemen's

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dream as a dream about sibling rivalry a

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death wish

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the existential framework restores a bit

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of our moral dignity that freud's

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cynical logic of death drives and death

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wishes seems to take away

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we did not necessarily thrill to others

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losses or suffering out of ill will or

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malice toward our fellow our fellow

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humans even unconsciously

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it is simply that if death and suffering

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are seen to befall others if we find

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ourselves in the position of witness

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then those fates are not at least not

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yet happening to us

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the reliving of traumas governed by what

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freud called a neurotic compulsion to

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repeat is really a way to experience and

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take pleasure in our own survival it

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expresses a morally unacceptable life

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drive rather than a death drive as freud

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originally framed it

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the french psychoanalyst jacqueline khan

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had had access to a word in his language

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that was perfectly suited to describe

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what freud was getting at here

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the word jewish

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knows a pleasure so extreme it is

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painful

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or a pain so extreme it is pleasurable

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and has been defined also as an excess

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of life or super abundant vitality

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lacan said that jouessance the pleasure

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beyond pleasure

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was the sole subject of psychoanalysis

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the way a neurotic individual or anybody

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in so far as we are neurotic derives

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pleasure from traumas as well as from

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self-destructive acts and thought

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processes

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the painful yet pleasurable thought but

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i survived is arguably also at the root

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of the jewish sons of disaster

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the lacanian philosopher slaboy zizak

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observed that big disasters like the

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titanic sinking and 911 were

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paradoxically enjoyed by media audiences

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compulsively enjoyed even because of

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that aristotelian logic of trauma

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911 for instance was an exciting

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cinematic spectacle that for most

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americans provoked an enormous sense of

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relief that the terrorists hadn't

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targeted their particular place of work

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or that of their loved ones

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if you were watching it on cnn it was

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probably not happening to you

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it thus created a nation of grateful

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survivors united by love and patriotism

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in its aftermath along with all the

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fearful negative emotions that were more

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acceptable to talk about and express

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there was arguably also a hefty dose of

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survivor's guilt

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this mix of guilt and gratitude horror

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and relief is the essence of zhuissance

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and i don't think it's accidental that

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highly troubling as well as exciting and

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darkly rewarding events like 911 or the

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titanic disaster were famously

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precognized by so many people

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there's no time to discuss them in this

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presentation but ian stevenson collected

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and wrote about several titanic

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premonitions in the 1960s

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and a quick google search turns up even

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more premonitions of 9 11. readers of my

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books have reported additional ones to

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me and i myself had a precognitive dream

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about that event a few hours before it

604
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happened precognitive dreamworkers have

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also sent me dreams related to the covet

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pandemic that suggests something along

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the evidence from premonitions and other

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precognitive experiences in both dreams

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and waking life suggest to me that the

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logic of jewish sons governs the

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pre-living of traumas and not just their

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re-living

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traumas can be displaced backward in

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time within our tesseract brains

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jewish sons could be called the signal

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line to emotional upheavals and turning

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the framework of juice once helps

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explain one of the most puzzling facts

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about premonitions the fact that they so

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often

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almost always in my experience go

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unrecognized and thus unheated

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in most scientific as well as popular

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literature on esp precognition and other

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psi modalities are reasonably presumed

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to serve an adaptive function for the

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individual

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thus it is most intuitive to think of

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premonitions as relating to some psychic

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radar helping the individual avoid

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dangers or revert catastrophes

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yet while accounts of threat avoidance

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following on dream premonitions do exist

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seemingly far more prevalent in the

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literature and in personal accounts i

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00:22:44,710 --> 00:22:42,960
have collected

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00:22:47,029 --> 00:22:44,720
are premonitions that are not recognized

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as such until after disaster or tragedy

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strikes

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as well as premonitions that are too

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00:22:53,590 --> 00:22:52,000
imprecise or symbolic ever to be used

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00:22:55,430 --> 00:22:53,600
for threat avoidance

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in fact the experience of guilt

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following a calamity that had seemingly

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been foreshadowed in a dream is such a

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common one that it may even be the most

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important adverse mental health

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consequence of precognition

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at least as long as we fail to

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precognition does reflect our survival

651
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orientation i believe but instead of

652
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being a psychic radar

653
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premonitions seem to be a preemptive

654
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part of a working through process

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the pre-processing of future traumas

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i like to compare it to the precognitive

657
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airbag in my 2029 tesla model q

658
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which i bought from the future on a trip

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00:23:38,230 --> 00:23:34,400
through a wormhole

660
00:23:41,110 --> 00:23:38,240
long story the airbag in my car deploys

661
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a second before an inevitable collision

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detected by the vehicle's quantum

663
00:23:47,269 --> 00:23:44,799
computer

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similarly the quantum neurobiological

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circuitry in our brains is alert for

666
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unavoidable upheavals on the road ahead

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and cushions us for these impacts

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preparing us in advance

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this remarkable system is especially

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attuned to existentially pertinent

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messages from our future that we both

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want to hear and do not want to hear

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such as that we will have survived some

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peril but at some cost or dignity or

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pride or worse

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i feel confident that converging

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research in a range of fields over the

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coming decades will enable us to better

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characterize this process and help bring

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precognition and premonitions out of the