Precognition, Free Will, and the Impetus of Time

Abstract

Precognition challenges traditional notions of time, free will, and localized self. Most associated causal paradoxes and incompatibilities can be resolved through selfconsistency relations and constraints on future-to-past information flow. However, a novel theoretical framework is proposed that identifies a limit to this resolution: an unavoidable tension between free will and a future accessible to transpersonal consciousness, which arises in relation to the localized aspect of integral self. This tension necessitates an additional consistency-preserving effect that accounts for the experience of time. It is argued that time, as experienced, is related to the ‘decline effect’ and other reproducibility challenges in parapsychological research.