Sentences with word «precognition»

Specifically, Bem analyzed whether the results of his studies could be explained if precognition did not exist.

Meta - analysis has been applied in almost every area of parapsychology — from the modern experiments on affecting random - number generators to the older work on precognition.

A High Beam Assistant automatically fades headlights in and out of high beam mode as required; front and rear parking sensors and cruise control are also included as standard, as is an innovative PreCognition system preventing or mitigating collision.

(I do not wish to underestimate the significance or validity of some of the carefully done experiments in para-psychology, involving such phenomena as precognition and thought transfer.

He also showed the subjects the same images later on, to see if precognition affected the first viewing.

When asked how he would feel if other scientists were to clearly disprove his claim about precognition, the gleam fades from his eye for a brief second.

Newcomer Brianna Hildebrand has been cast as the obscure mutant from the comics known as Negasonic Teenage Warhead, a telepath with precognition.

Google says apps should stream faster, as content will load in the background in precognition of what you want to watch next.

To explain precognition, Radin proposes a different but related concept: time - symmetry of quantum events.

If statistically significant precognition existed, that would be stunning — even at the level of 2.27 per cent that Michael...

Experimental results suggesting precognition discussed in Bob Holmes's article (14 January, p 38) remind me of a quirk of certain...

So Bem devised a series of experiments to test precognition.

The analysis found the odds of getting all of those results in a world without precognition, due to chance alone, were «one in about 74 billion,» according to Bem.

On large scales such time symmetry falls apart (which is why it is not possible to uncrack an egg), but some psi proponents think it may apply sufficiently to allow the reversal of cause and effect, enabling precognition.

Broughton reviews all these, as well as animal precognition, which involved another fraud scandal that he omits.

Daryl Bem's experiments showing small correlations that suggest some human ability for precognition (18 December 2010, p 30) made me...

Precognition seems like an apt metaphor for what science fiction can be to the culture.

How's this for weird coincidences and a case of unlikely precognition?

With this impressive - sounding result, Bem ruled out the null hypothesis, that precognition does not exist.

Bem ran five experiments on precognition (four of them twice), all variations of his priming and reversal design, testing more than 1,000 subjects.

On Normal and above, the AI characters appear to have been blessed with precognition, as they will jump over rocket shots and never miss when they fire at you.

Writers understand their job well, and they have a sort of precognition about what internet browser would look for.

3 And smaller numbers seek, or are influenced by, experiences of clairvoyance, telepathy, precognition, and other extrasensory perceptions that provide clues to their views of the personal as well as the cosmic mind.4

The leading psychologist Daryl Bem claims evidence for «precognition» — the perception of future events.

Take the example of psychologist Daryl Bem, who has infuriated his colleagues by publishing an experiment that supports the existence of precognition: the ability to sense events that have not yet happened.

In 2010 Bem published the results of nine experiments he had conducted over seven years that, in his view, constituted strong evidence of precognition.

Following the standard rules of hypothesis testing, he concluded that the alternate hypothesis — the reality of precognition — must therefore be valid.

By the end of the 1990s, Bem had changed his focus from clairvoyance to precognition, the most mind - boggling of psi phenomena.

Precognition is different.

«Half the emails I get are people telling me their personal experiences of precognition,» he says.

Now, in the twilight of his career, he has committed what may be his most daring act of sacrilege: claiming the existence of precognition, the ability to sense future events.

One day a University of Pittsburgh researcher who was studying psi — an umbrella term for telepathy, precognition, and other seemingly paranormal phenomena — came to see Bem perform.

Through most of his career, he was as dubious about telepathy (mind reading) or precognition (seeing the future) as any of his colleagues.

Findings have also emerged such as that precognition works better with shorter time intervals and selected subjects.

You'd think it would be more than enough to fuel his desire for revenge that Christian had him fired, in the previous movie, for making an admittedly criminal pass at Ana, but no: Christian and Ana are so amazingly brilliant that they possess a whole new kind of precognition that allows them to perceive that there must be something else driving him, something that must be investigated and ferreted out.

A bunch of impossibly smart, conveniently wounded and hubristically arrogant characters are stranded on an island and pitted against a serial killer that apparently has the powers of telepathy and precognition.

Even Scarlett Johansson («Ghost in the Shell») shows up, voicing Nutmeg, a show dog who falls for Chief's gentle overtures, as well as Tilda Swinton («Okja») as Oracle, a dog with the powers of precognition.

The suitcase does however contain: a nifler (a platypusial creature with a fondness for snatching shiny objects); an erumpent (rhino - like when it comes to size and temperament and, inconveniently, in heat); several occamy (winged serpents with an aptitude for size - shifting); a demiguise (simian, and blessed with powers of invisibility and precognition); a thunderbird (pretty much what is sounds like, only larger); and a variety of other, shall we say, fantastic beasts.

1:52: The young woman here is Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand), a mutant with the powers of telepathy and precognition.

From the extremely long list of standard and optional equipment, we can mention the PreCognition system that tries to mitigate or even prevent crashes, the High Beam assistant, the steering wheel with vibration damping, the optional 18 - way adjustable front seats (12 - way as standard), Apple CarPlay and Android Auto connectivity, a 1,700 - watt Bang & Olufsen sound system, and the LIS infotainment system with voice recognition.

Pushed to the limits of human endurance; his skills are now unparalleled, his reaction time verging on precognition.

But her puppies have no precognition, no premonition as they whimper into life.