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Old 23rd April 2012, 11:40 PM   #240
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Originally Posted by Brian-M View Post
But humans cannot "feel" the future either.
Sure we do, anticipation, expectation, anxiety, fear are all feelings we have before we jump out of an aeroplane for the first time with a parachute on our backs.

Originally Posted by Brian-M View Post
All the information we use is also from the past (and present).
So someone that never jumped out of an aeroplane with a parachute knows what it feels like to jump out of an aeroplane with a parachute before they actually feel what it feels like? How?

Originally Posted by Brian-M View Post
However, if you can demonstrate a genuine capacity to perceive ("feel") or anticipate future events that could not be anticipated based on past information (with better results than just guessing), I know an organization that will give you a million dollars.
It is a trivial ability of humans which developed through evolution. No magic there. You computationalists should study biology sometime, you might learn something instead of assuming everything that is not about computers is magic.
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