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Bill D BS: Precognition (445* d) RE: BS: Precognition 28 Nov 22

"Intuition" is not precognition and anecdotes are not data.|

We remember events that DID happen that we seemed to have foreknowledge of, but sweep under the rug ones that didn't happen.

I have had vivid, scary dreams...but have seen no evidence of them being more than neural patterns rearranging memories. I have never had anything resembling an instance of precognition.
(Of course, I've been told I just wasn't 'wired right'...just like my horoscope says I'm the sort who doesn't trust horoscopes... and my Myers-Briggs test says I'm the sort who doesn't like taking such tests..INTP, I think.)

All the logic I have studied suggests that the various trust in such things are mostly examples of "affirming the consequent"
https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/Affirming-the-Consequent


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