Can Presentiment be Used by Futurologists or to Make More Intelligent Policy Decisions?

Can presentiment be used to make policy decisions or by futurologists to work in a more constructive manner?

Delving into the qualitative in order to find a better means (especially if only depending on that) for decision making can be risky and open to a zillion personal interpretations. There would have to be a way to use presentiment without being wide open to an 'anything goes relativism'. On the other hand, holding on to past events to extrapolate and predict in a classical deterministic way also has many limitations, such as restricting possibilities to what has bee done in the past or a close mindedness against more optimal creative solutions. Detecting future possibilities connecting with our past and present has survival value and somehow human nervous systems have the ability to perceive future possibilities specially if they pose a threat or can elicit an amotional response. But the detection usually gives a vague feeling...or a "hunch."  

Dick Bierman and Dean Radin and Daryl Bem have presented quite robust evidence that the nervous system fires signals (normally outside of conscious perception) before an emotionally challenging image is shown. The work of di Corpo and Vaninni is related, including a theoretical review of the physics that may be involved. Perhaps finding a way to reasonably combine objective past patterns and subconscious or liminally experienced future possibilities would work best. Perhaps the subconscious detection-processing of future possibilities can also extend into distant future events rather than short-term detections as in many of the presentiment studies. What cannot be in all honesty denied is the highly suggestive experimental data that besides using logical reasoning based on past sequences there may be more global and non-local ways to forecast or to predict what may happen (and thus to make a more informed decisions) also coinciding with information being directly detected from the future or probable futures.   

Giorgio Piacenza

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I think that information is indeed more fundamental or existing in a more inclusive and non-physical symmetry and realm that integrates discreetness and continuity. This information realm pre-exists to quantum physics and to continuous space-time physics. It also operates in a non-physical ontological and epistemological way with a "both-and" logic that includes all possible relations and even subsumes classical either-or logical forms. Consciousness recognizes information as meaningful. Also, according to Generalized Quantum Theory, macroscopic systems exhibiting"closure" (see Maturana & Varela) show complementarity of the part and whole aspects in a non-local way. These systems would be more properly called living "holons" and vehicles of consciousness. Information can have non-local effects and I think that consciousness (able to make meaningful decision about information) can exert choice or predispose (through the quantum of action) certain information flows and probabilities between different contexts.

Giorgio Piacenza