Staying with the subject extra human abilities that was talked about in “If humans could fly”, this theory talks about another ability. What if humans could see into the past! This of course is nothing to write about, humans have memory, humans can see the past and humans have been able to do this for a long time if not forever. So what makes this gift any good? Seeing into the future would be much better.
Seeing the future has problems which could cause paradoxes such as, if one saw their own death was going to happen in the house they currently lived in, they would move? If they moved they would not be in that house to die in and the precognitive image was wrong. It also relies on everything following some kind of set of actions.
So what is the use of post-cognition? Post-cognition has the ability to see what has happened. This is much larger than the memory of the person. This is the ability to be able to see past lives, the past of other people, and the past of objects and the past of locations.
This is not free of problems though, confabulation is the invention of memories in the mind. This is a leading problem science has with post-cognition. Confabulation is the inability to tell between genuine or false memories. Someone with apparent post-cognitive abilities may only be suffering from confabulated memories.
There are a few ways post-cognition could work some are more insane then others. Everything has memory, if everything in this world had memory of some sort then objects such as a pen would remember where it had been and who had used/made it. Location memory, if locations have memory such as rooms it might explain how people can know the way around a building they have never been to before. The last theory, multi-verse what if post-cognition would be available when another universe that was currently behind the current universe was close enough for one to peek into it. This would allow one to see the past or a past. The past that is seen may not be the real past of the current universe and as such may be viewed as confabulation.
Further reading:
Post-cognition or Retrocognition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrocognition
Confabulation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation
A psychic who may have had retrocognition http://www.edgarcayce.org/are/edgarcayce.aspx
Seeing the future has problems which could cause paradoxes such as, if one saw their own death was going to happen in the house they currently lived in, they would move? If they moved they would not be in that house to die in and the precognitive image was wrong. It also relies on everything following some kind of set of actions.
So what is the use of post-cognition? Post-cognition has the ability to see what has happened. This is much larger than the memory of the person. This is the ability to be able to see past lives, the past of other people, and the past of objects and the past of locations.
This is not free of problems though, confabulation is the invention of memories in the mind. This is a leading problem science has with post-cognition. Confabulation is the inability to tell between genuine or false memories. Someone with apparent post-cognitive abilities may only be suffering from confabulated memories.
There are a few ways post-cognition could work some are more insane then others. Everything has memory, if everything in this world had memory of some sort then objects such as a pen would remember where it had been and who had used/made it. Location memory, if locations have memory such as rooms it might explain how people can know the way around a building they have never been to before. The last theory, multi-verse what if post-cognition would be available when another universe that was currently behind the current universe was close enough for one to peek into it. This would allow one to see the past or a past. The past that is seen may not be the real past of the current universe and as such may be viewed as confabulation.
Further reading:
Post-cognition or Retrocognition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrocognition
Confabulation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation
A psychic who may have had retrocognition http://www.edgarcayce.org/are/edgarcayce.aspx
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