Can man really see into the future?

Ben Affleck in the movie PaycheckSome scientists now believe that the human brain can predict tragedy sub-consciously and thus giving us a chance to avoid it.

A snippet from Daily Mail:
Shortly after 9/11, strange stories began circulating about the lucky few who had escaped the outrage.

It transpired that many of the survivors had changed their plans at the last minute after vague feelings of unease.

It was a subtle, gnawing feeling that 'something' was not right. Nobody vocalised it but shortly before the attacks, people started altering their plans out of an unspoken instinct.

The aircraft which flew into the Twin Towers on 9/11 were unusually empty. All the hijacked planes were carrying only half the usual number of passengers. Perhaps one unusually empty plane could be explained away, but all four?

And it wasn't just on 9/11 that people subconsciously seemed to avoid disaster. Scientist Ed Cox found that trains 'destined' to crash carried far fewer people than they did normally.

Dr Jessica Utts, a statistician at the University of California, found exactly the same bizarre effect.

Read the full article after the jump.

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Leo said…
From an evolutionary standpoint that would make complete sense (should you believe in evolution). People with the ability to unconsciously avoid fatal disasters would survive more often than their lacking counterparts. Which would also provide more of a chance to reproduce slowly increasing the percentage of humanity with the mysterious ability over many generations.