Huw Price on Backward Causation

Eric Wargo's book refers to this short interview with Huw Price on the "philosophy bites" website, in which he puts the case for retrocausation. Perhaps as significant as what he actually says is the fact that he is far from being a fringe figure, as he is the holder of the Bertrand Russell Professorship in philosophy at Cambridge University:
https://philosophybites.com/2012/07/huw-...ation.html

My first introduction to the Psi Field was Michael Talbot's The Holographic Universe. Key to the book is the idea of David Bohm's Implicate Order. Of course, the Hermetic teaching I studied years before alluded to essentially the same concepts, but Implicate Order moved those concepts into a more contemporary context.

The most important concepts in Talbot's book for me were the concept of order implied by fundamental principles and the concept of a field of intentionality (my word, I think) permeating the physical. In more current thinking, parapsychologists talk of a subtle field permeating the physical (some refer to it as the Psi Field) which is nonlocal and nontemperal. They treat it as a propagation media for thought.

We see a lot of evidence for nonlocality in ITC. Parapsychologists talk of nonlocality in terms of here is everywhere. I find it more correct to think in terms of everywhere is here. The difference is important because here is everywhere takes us to the holographic model in which each part contains the total. In everywhere is here the experiencer is at the center of reality. In effect, the idea that we are all one is supported by everywhere is here.

The nonlocality characteristic of psi phenomena is slowly being applied to other sciences. First Sight Theory is an example of a parapsychological concept having a strong foundation of mainstream psychology. Conversely, parapsychology is slowly integrating concepts of quantum mechanics into models for psi functioning. See Consciousness and the double-slit interference pattern: Six experiments. 

Referring to the Huw Price on the "philosophy bites" audio, every example Price mentioned for retrocausation is better explained with the concept of nonlocality and the existence of a Psi Field. There are a lot of anecdotal reports of precognition which lead parapsychologists to the nontemperal characteristic of the Psi Field.

From personal experience with ITC, I see a lot of evidence for presentiment, but emerging understanding about how we think seems to make that a naturally occurring consequence of mental processes. Perception lags sensing by a fraction of a second.

One way this shows up is in EVP examples that have the answer to a question recorded just before the question is spoken. The time relationship supports presentiment. This characteristic is one of the reasons I find First Sight Theory so compelling.

The model I find most useful for precognition is the psi sensing of potential future states. Sensing the emergent of a future state seems to support such examples as the REG network detecting a change in randomness moments before major events such as the 9-11 attack. If we share a sort of collective consciousness, all of us would be unconsciously aware of and begin to react to the dread a few witnesses might have as they realized ahead of time what was to happen ... say whoever enabled the attackers.

I remember Wargo on Skeptiko...I'm less wary of his quantum biological stance than I am his belief in retrocausation.

As Braude notes, there is an incredibly big onus to explain why this backward arrow only seems to occur in limited fashion. OTOH, if there are two arrows of causation...how does this actually work?

Retrocausation, if it involves the universe as a whole experiencing two arrows of time....seems almost as un-parsimonious as a Multiverse for explaining away Fine Tuning, Intelligent Design.