Earthquakes have been predicted by other sensitive animules, Helen -- dogs and cats change their behavior before one. I don't know about a whole week before, though.

The theory bandied about is that they are responding to pre-event transmissions from the plates or faults shifting minutely before the actual quake blooms. I have no idea whether such pre-cursor events occur with any reliability or not.

So I would prefer to assume that you simply developed an ability to know. Some people like to argue that the ability to know must obey the rules and can only occur post-facto, in response to stimuli, because otherwise, why ANYONE could know ANYTHING, and THEN where would we be.

Others, myself included, are inclined to believe that the ability to know is senior to mechanics, to the degree it is allowed tobe, and that in fact anyone CAN know anything.

This is really a core issue, because you can't explain the ability to know on a purely bio-mechanical basis, as far as I have seen, no matte rhow many stimulus-response chains you postulate. But in order to explain it otherwise, you have to contemplate a spiritual or at least non-material element in play.

Dangerous stuff.


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