Can We Know the Future?
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Tough question, but instead of raising — perhaps overly — complex metaphysical issues, let's ask: what are the facts? what does empiricist science say?
We? perhaps; our bodies? certainly
From: Radin, D. I. (1997a). Unconscious perception of future emotions: An experiment in presentiment. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 11 (2), 163-180.
This experiment can be easily reproduced in school science projects (just don't use too violent or erotic scenes as "emotional pictures", when doing the experiment with young teenagers). All that you need is a cheap galvanometer. Or the help of police officers who can use the polygraph.
Our bodies can sense the future — some of it, at least; this means that animals probably do that all the time, relatively unhampered by an hypertrophic cortex... and this makes sense. From an evolutionary point of view, it is quite useful. Perhaps lower life forms not only sense the future, but are guided, even determined, by it?
