David W. Smith's Ph.D. Thesis

I'm again grateful to someone who has drawn my attention to David W. Smith's University of Edinburgh Ph.D. thesis, entitled "An investigation of unconscious precognition in the visual attention system" (2012), which is available here:
https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/bitstream/h...th2013.pdf

The thesis presents the results of several studies. According to the abstract, some of them did not provide support for a precognition hypothesis, but others did.

I'm again grateful to someone who has drawn my attention to David W. Smith's University of Edinburgh Ph.D. thesis, entitled "An investigation of unconscious precognition in the visual attention system" (2012), which is available here:
https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/bitstream/h...th2013.pdf

The thesis presents the results of several studies. According to the abstract, some of them did not provide support for a precognition hypothesis, but others did.

Interesting and massive read... not that I read it all!... but quite a bit.

Don’t think there is much chance of discovering wakeful precognition using simple visual stimuli of everyday patterns. Seems too vision-based, and vision seems too fast to me, I don’t see much lag with it - it’s a very spatial experience with not a lot of time in it. Reckon you need stimuli with the sense of feelings and emotions, which seem quite slow and laggy - and not very spatial, but very temporal - to increase your chances of discovering access to information which is overlapping from the future. Even better, if you can select the particular stimuli to appeal to subjects who are motivated by that particular stimuli, and who also seem to have a good history of predicting it.