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Index
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Beyond Folk Causality (or, One Damn Thing Before Another)
Part One: Welcome to the Not Yet
1. The Size of the Impossible—Disasters, Prophecy, and Hindsight
2. “If I Were You, I’d Stay on the Ground for a Couple of Days”—Victor Goddard, J. W. Dunne, and the Block Universe
3. Postcards from Your Future Self—Scientific Evidence for Precognition
4. The Psi Reflex—Presentiment and the Future-Influencing-Present Effect
Part Two: “How can this be?”
5. Catching Precognitive Butterflies—Chaos, Memory, and Premory in the Thermodynamic Universe
6. Destination: Pong (or, How to Build a Quantum Future Detector)
7. A New Era of Hyperthought—From Precognitive Bacteria to Our Tesseract Brain
Part Three: Time’s Taboos
8. Sometimes a Causal Arrow Isn’t Just a Causal Arrow—Oedipus, Freud, and the Repression of Prophecy
9. Wyrd and Wishes—Metabolizing the Future in Dreams
10. Prophetic Jouissance—Trauma, Survival, and the Precognitive Sublime
Part Four: Lives of the Precogs
11. A Precognitive Seduction—Maggy Quarles van Ufford, Carl Jung, and the Scarab
12. Fate, Free Will, and Futility—Morgan Robertson’s Tiresias Complex
13. “P.S. What Scares Me Most, Claudia, Is That I Can Often Recall the Future”—The Memetic Prophecies of Philip K. Dick
14. The Arrival of Meaning and the Creation of the Past
Postscript: A Ruin from the Future
Notes
References
Index
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