But none of those formulas can explain the fact that some people seem able to see the future. I got a peek at the awe-inspiring, mysterious side of vision, and it left me with a case of the chills in the warmth of summer. In the heart of Silicon Valley, I met a man who is a scientist of intuition. Indeed, the subject of Radin's research invites a kind of X-Files conversation. Precognition falls under the category of psychic phenomena, which is a subset of the paranormal.
Precognitive experiences transcend the boundaries of space and time.
We don't see such dramatic events in the real world, at least not under controlled conditions, though we do see changes in the distribution of random events. In an experiment, it comes down to watching a roll of a die and trying to influence the outcome mentally. You do this over and over again, and the link with mental intention is seen not in what a single die does but in the distribution of results after many trials. For instance, people can have so many years of experience in a given field that they forget what they know about it. A patient walks into a doctor's office and the doctor gets an intuitive feeling that this patient has a certain disease.