2014-04-07 22:25 GMT+02:00 Craig Weinberg <whatsons...@gmail.com>: > > > On Sunday, April 6, 2014 2:45:35 AM UTC-4, Alberto G.Corona wrote: >> >> Probably you saw people visiting houses in your neighbourhood, but >> that did not reached consciousnees you were busy thinking about other >> things. (I will not insert here these funny videos of people failing >> to recognize a bear in the middle of a scene). >> > > These kinds of dismissals are not scientific. When you have a genuinely > precognitive experience, you would really have to bend over backward to > mistake it for anything else. > > If you say so...
> >> But according with a theory of evolutionary psychology, dreams are in >> order to be prepared for possible threats specially the most dangerous >> ones. The material of the dreams is taken from past events, and the >> subconscious takes into account not only the things that were you >> conscious of, but everithing. >> > > You could just as easily say that dreams are in order to confuse us so > that we will be unprepared for possible threats to weed out the more easily > confused members of the species. Just-so stories are fun to make up, but we > shouldn't take them seriously. > > You could as easily say it as well that plants are aliens. and Craig is the father of Dark Vader. Yes . You can say so. But it is not something based on the theory of evolution, that is, natural selection and evolutionary biology. > >> And maybe, sometimes the elaborative mechanism of the dreams does work >> very well. In some sense it is precognitive. >> >> That is in order to protect your sacred skepticism ;) >> >> 2014-04-06 7:13 GMT+02:00, Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au>: >> > On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 05:42:10AM +1000, Kim Jones wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> Finally you got to it. It was a precognitive dream. I have had many, >> an >> >> enormous number throughout my life in fact, so I don't think we need >> to >> >> beat about the bush here. Some dreams "foretell" or synchronistically >> >> coincide with near-future events (usually cloaked in some symbolic >> >> representation). Period. Jung certainly thought so. We cannot explain >> this >> >> away. >> >> >> > >> > Not sure about that. It's happened maybe 2-3 times to me in my whole >> > life. I would call that rate "coincidence". Not statistically >> > significant. YMMV :). Also, presumably by chance, some people's rate >> > of precognitive dreams would be much higher, just like some people >> > are more "accident prone" than others. >> > >> > Cheers >> > >> > -- >> > >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> > Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) >> > Principal, High Performance Coders >> > Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpc...@hpcoders.com.au >> > University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au >> > >> > Latest project: The Amoeba's Secret >> > (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/AmoebasSecret.html) >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >> > "Everything List" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an >> > email to everything-li...@googlegroups.com. >> > To post to this group, send email to everyth...@googlegroups.com. >> > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > >> >> >> -- >> Alberto. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Alberto. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
