Here’s a fun reason: Your consciousness lags between 80 milliseconds and a second behind reality. Everything you are aware of has already happened. You live inescapably in the past. Here’s a consequential reason: Your only way to observe the world is with yourself at the centre. Your only way to process your observations is through the filters of your knowledge, experience and biases. You are, in one way or another, objectively wrong about virtually everything.
'Psychologist and Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman reveals the actions we can take to overcome the biases that cripple our decision-making, damper our thinking, and limit our effectiveness. Listen and Learn from the master.’ https://fs.blog/knowledge-project/daniel-kahneman/
This has reminded me about deja vu as a thing.... in some circumstances our brain has enough information before an event to accurately predict what will happened next based on what has happened before. And we think that we have some magical predication powers or something...But deja vu doesn't seem to allow you the opportunity to change the thing that happens....??
On our consciousness lagging behind reality: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/time-on-the-brain-how-you-are-always-living-in-the-past-and-other-quirks-of-perception/
On cognitive biases: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/09/cognitive-bias/565775/
'Psychologist and Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman reveals the actions we can take to overcome the biases that cripple our decision-making, damper our thinking, and limit our effectiveness. Listen and Learn from the master.’ https://fs.blog/knowledge-project/daniel-kahneman/
This has reminded me about deja vu as a thing.... in some circumstances our brain has enough information before an event to accurately predict what will happened next based on what has happened before. And we think that we have some magical predication powers or something...But deja vu doesn't seem to allow you the opportunity to change the thing that happens....??
You can only change it if you know Déjà voodoo.
The idea of Déja vu as prediction was new to me, so obviously I googled. This was an interesting find: https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/quirks-memory/201803/d-j-vu-linked-feelings-prediction