2014-04-07 22:25 GMT+02:00 Craig Weinberg <[email protected]>: > > > 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 <[email protected]>: >> > 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 [email protected] >> > 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 [email protected]. >> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> > 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
