Presentiment I think is an artifact of the way in which the brain is put together and operates. An awful lot of what goes on in mammialian brains has little to do with sensory inputs, that is, interaction with the world. The brain is to a significant extent self-organizing - it sculpts, edits, shapes, categorizes information without the knowledge much less control of the person whose brain it is. Among other things this makes possible a human being's ability to hit a one hundred miles per hour fastball (unless, of course, you're a Seattle Mariner prospect breaking into the big leagues in which case you'll never hit anything).
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