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So, like, a subconscious version of Sherlock Holmes?

Ok, something like that.

Just seems a good analogy.

I have a more powerful version of 'gut feeling', so stop me if this is kinda unrelated.

But have you seen 'Premonition'?

Yeah, that's me. Except my days aren't all out of order or whatever. That movie was REALLY odd.

With me, It's more a form of deja vu in reverse. Ill have a 'sight', as I call them, (which rarely lasts over five-ten seconds), and in a week or so, I'll suddenly be like 'WOAH! Deja vu!'

And before someone suggests Deja vu, I have actually written these visions down, and come back a week later, and be like...'oh. THATS why today was so familiar.'

So yea.

But I digress.

Ah, dejà vu...
That feeling you can only say in French...

It usually refers to meeting people and feeling like you've met before.

Gut feelings are often vague, so my two bits is, don't rely on them.

Moreover, due to their vague nature, no matter what happens, it can be interpreted as the subject matter of the gut feeling. Handy.

Here's my theory on this:

Imagine time as a hallway. On one end of this hall, it is heavily cluttered, this is the past. On the other end, the longer end, all the items are spread out, this is the future. The point where the clutter stops and the neatness begins is the present. As time flows, the items in this hall (the events in history) move through the small region that represents the present into the cluttered past. Now in this hall people can look back and they can look forward (into the past and future). The reason the past is cluttered is because we remember most of it, or its written down somewhere that someone can acces it. The future is spread out and is seemingly empty because next to no one knows whats going to happen. Now, when a person with good perception sees one of these items (events) move toward the present then they have seen the future.

So the basic premise is that the past, future, and present are already in our memory, It's just accessing that information that's the problem.

An interesting analogue. What exatly is it that causes the clutter?

That is something I don't know. I just know that the past is easier to remember than it is to look into the future. Thus the analogy. The past is cluttered with all the events and memories humankind keeps. If it wasn't cluttered, then we wouldn't remember anything beyond a certain point.

What about the future is a clutter, and all the stuff is what could happen. When we get to that part of the hallway, we clean it up, what we tidy and keep is what happens, the rest we throw out. The 'Gut Feeling' is us looking forward at the mess and seeing what might be, and sorta recognizing what's not just trash. The past is all organized, with none of the trash still there, so all we remember is what did happen.

Good Silentia. You finally get it. Congratulations.

*goes insane*

I guess that's a good analogy, but what i want to know is, can one learn to distinguish trash from standard clutter?

Trial and error. Like learning to find square roots.

So an instinct type of thing. Well that is true too. You know the "fight or flight" thing.


Wait..... You use trile and error to find your roots. Well I got really board one day and have a lot of the them down in a notebook.

You use trial and error until you know it. Or until you get a calculator that'll do it for you.

I don't think instinct is the best word. Sort of like instinct plus practice. Like grammar rules. And analogies.

Or you can use the S.R.C. Standard Mathematical Tables. It is the only book I hug every day. But it does only go to 1000 for squares and cubes roots.


I get what you mean like swinging a sword or playing a sport. You need some work to do it, but sometimes things just come "naturally" for people.

Right. Of course, this is all speculation.