How could the people predict the future? How does the brain do it?
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When it comes right down to the details, the only sense that is REAL is the sense of taste. Almost as real is the sense of touch. The other three senses (smell, hearing and sight) are all 'predictive', and can be fooled in any normal person. So, a 'sixth' sense - the extrasensory one is just a combination of the three senses that can be easily fooled.
The brain, believe it or not, has no senses whatever. You fool it all the time, usually by filtering everything else that comes into it against what it "knows". It can (and usually does) ignore everything that it assumes is not relevant to the situation. It can take as real any thought or suggestion that is presented to it, especially through the senses, and it will assume that any thought it takes is something in reality.
So, how does all this relate to your question?
Simply this: if you stop filtering everything through what you know, you almost immediately find that the familiar is strange; you 'see' through new eyes. If you really SEE people, you will find that you can link what they are doing to what they will do. You can HEAR what they are saying to themselves. You can SMELL the pheromones. If you TOUCH, you can feel what they are are deciding (more properly, what their reactions are to something) and predict very precisely what they will do.
That's how the brain works, how the brain does it.
It's not extra sensory. It's using the senses you already have.
As for accidents and such like, well, I half-remember a study that was done some fifty years ago. What it was pointing to was that people had feelings of disasters and such like, even visions of them. But the hit rate (the number of correct predictions compared to the number of predictions) was actually statistically insignificant. If you predict every plane is going to crash, you will be right, approximately once every couple of million miles of travel - that's the statistical reality.
The brain, believe it or not, has no senses whatever. You fool it all the time, usually by filtering everything else that comes into it against what it "knows". It can (and usually does) ignore everything that it assumes is not relevant to the situation. It can take as real any thought or suggestion that is presented to it, especially through the senses, and it will assume that any thought it takes is something in reality.
So, how does all this relate to your question?
Simply this: if you stop filtering everything through what you know, you almost immediately find that the familiar is strange; you 'see' through new eyes. If you really SEE people, you will find that you can link what they are doing to what they will do. You can HEAR what they are saying to themselves. You can SMELL the pheromones. If you TOUCH, you can feel what they are are deciding (more properly, what their reactions are to something) and predict very precisely what they will do.
That's how the brain works, how the brain does it.
It's not extra sensory. It's using the senses you already have.
As for accidents and such like, well, I half-remember a study that was done some fifty years ago. What it was pointing to was that people had feelings of disasters and such like, even visions of them. But the hit rate (the number of correct predictions compared to the number of predictions) was actually statistically insignificant. If you predict every plane is going to crash, you will be right, approximately once every couple of million miles of travel - that's the statistical reality.
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