> If you look into these experiences, you find many people who say they learnt about parts of material reality, that they are then able to verify materially.
I can do this, too, but usually while I'm awake and bored. Reality is quite redundant, and we get all sorts of information from all sorts of sources, and sometimes I can put the puzzle pieces together and deduce things I "shouldn't" have known.
This power doesn't extend to localised information, such as the value of a hidden dice roll, and it's quite mundane. A generalisation of cold-reading. What Sherlock Holmes would call deduction, though it's actually abductive reasoning.
Examples: • Entering a building, imagining design constraints, deducing the presence of exactly one lift, inferring its location, inferring the existence of an extra wing behind the building (to place the lift in the middle), extrapolating observed foot traffic, and guessing which floor and corridor a particular office was. • Listening to someone explain geopolitics for half an hour, and inferring that they're a double-jointed insomniac.
I can do this, too, but usually while I'm awake and bored. Reality is quite redundant, and we get all sorts of information from all sorts of sources, and sometimes I can put the puzzle pieces together and deduce things I "shouldn't" have known.
This power doesn't extend to localised information, such as the value of a hidden dice roll, and it's quite mundane. A generalisation of cold-reading. What Sherlock Holmes would call deduction, though it's actually abductive reasoning.
Examples: • Entering a building, imagining design constraints, deducing the presence of exactly one lift, inferring its location, inferring the existence of an extra wing behind the building (to place the lift in the middle), extrapolating observed foot traffic, and guessing which floor and corridor a particular office was. • Listening to someone explain geopolitics for half an hour, and inferring that they're a double-jointed insomniac.