Tor,
Thanks for the link to Bierman's paper - I had followed that dead end too! Your 'list' link was very encouraging (at least if you think a real presentiment effect would be more fun than an artifact!) - Paul you should go there. Unfortunately I can't get at the retro-causation papers without payment. Do any of those papers report actual experimental results?
A real presentiment effect might go a long way to explain Libet's results because the delays in neural processing can be compensated by advance knowledge!
Paul would probably classify a real presentiment effect as physicalist - but who cares, it would certainly push this whole subject a lot further forward!
I also wonder if presentiment is somehow involved in certain sports played at a high level. For example, a snooker player will watch the ball intently after it has left his cue and is no longer under his control. I do seriously wonder if he gets a good feeling from the future as he lines up the cue (the task looks almost impossible). It would be interesting to fit a player with glasses that could be opaqued electrically after the ball had left the cue - my bet is that his performance would drop on those trials (selected randomly) when the glasses went opaque so that he was deprived of the instant feedback of how well he had done!
David  |