There are psychic phenomena that for a long time have remained mere superstition, and are associated with the irrational and impossible. The ability to divine the futurealso called precognition or premonition, is one of them.
Leaving these phenomena aside was a mistake of science for a long time: one of those errors that omitted the importance of investigating questions of a mystical and mythological nature that have been present in all cultures, and whose scientific explanation is not only feasible, but their study is important beyond whether they are verifiable.
Because the mystical is something without pretensions to truth: an intuitive resource closer to art and to spontaneous creationa ferment of culture and life itself, and that now could be a ferment of unsuspected scientific advances.
How does precognition work according to neuroscience?
We know that the brain and the organism form a complex mechanism, still mysterious in many ways. But neuroscience has been in charge of dispelling various fallacies regarding this machine of suggestive capacities, whose limits we do not know. Gone is the myth of the differences between the hemispheres of the brain, or the theory –previously forceful– that the number of neurons is the basis of intelligence.
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Leaving behind certain prejudices has made science broaden its horizons, to the extent that it has been able to investigate what it previously disdained. A study published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience demonstrates it, because in it he delves into anticipatory cognitive activities of the organism and their possible implications.
Experiments like this – and many others that have taken place over the past few decades – have indicated that the human body can, in fact, randomly detect stimuli that will occur between 1 and 10 seconds later. That is to say: he has a real precognitive ability.
Cognition is the act of know: something that is done at a cognitive level and that involves our entire body, especially the autonomic nervous system (responsible for controlling involuntary functions), the sense of touch and some organs. Without this, we would not be able to reason.
The conclusion of the experiments is that the phenomenon of precognition is as real as cognition itself; but its complex functioning is what still keeps the matter as a relative mystery. Psychology, for its part, attributes precognition to the unconscious and intuitive abilities related to it.
What the scientific community is wondering is If in the future it will be possible to find methods so that precognition does not occur only at the unconscious level. But one thing is certain: if neuroscientific and psychological research continues to address what is far from the merely superstitious or paranormal, such as precognition, it is likely that we will evolve our brains to unimagined degrees.
Because there is no doubt that life is a multidimensional, multifaceted process that flows on different planes (dreams are an example of this). For this reason, beyond scientific verification, the mystical has a key cultural role: there is a logic to it that should not be the object of contempt, but rather a type of passion and curiosity closer to alchemy and joie de vivre. Something that, to our clairvoyant fortune, science seems to have understood.
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