The CIA Found Evidence Humans Can Predict the Future!

0:01 Think about this. In your life, have you ever had a premonition of an event that ended up happening? You just kind of knew something was going to happen before it did. >> These key elements in that dream he'd had almost three decades earlier came true in his life and [music] he never acknowledged that that dream was a premonition. >> Maybe it was the passing of a loved one. Thinking about somebody right before they call or re-enter your life. having a gut feeling that you know you need to quit that job, take that other job, travel somewhere, get back in touch with someone even though it made no rational sense to you at the time. It just felt like a download. You got a gut feeling. >> Patients would bring him pre-cognitive dreams all the time because people have these dreams all the time. Have you ever had a dream that's turned into a reality? Have you ever seen somebody else predict an extremely [music] low probability black swan event with

0:47 bizarre precision and accuracy? Well, if you answered yes to any of these, you are not alone. This happens literally all of the time. And thanks to this guy, we're discovering the science behind it right now. >> Trying to predict the future is a discouraging and hazardous occupation. >> But before we get into his work and who he is, let's go through all of the insane examples of modern prophecies. American fiction author Dean Coun wrote a novel called The Eyes of Darkness. It's centered on secret experiments involving the perfect boweapon developed at a lab near Wuhan, China called Wuhan 400. The novel is set in 2020, exactly like co. The only thing is the novel was written in 1981. Author Morgan Robertson wrote an 1898

1:32 novella called Futility or Wreck of the Titan. Futility tells the story of the Titan, [music] the largest and most luxurious ocean liner ever built. In the novel, the Titan hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic on an April night and sinks. But before that catastrophe, the ship was described as unsinkable and the largest liner in the ocean. Ring a bell? Well, because Wreck of the Titan was written about 14 years before the Titanic, the most luxurious ocean liner built at the time, described as unsinkable with elite families like the Aers on board. Both ships were almost identical in size and features. The Titan was 800 ft long, whereas the Titanic was 882 ft long. Both vessels were traveling at high speeds around 24 to 25 knots while they were crossing the North Atlantic in April at the time of

2:19 their collision with an iceberg. They both disregarded ice warnings and both lacked a sufficient amount of lifeboats on board. In 1952, [music] former Nazi and father of the American space program, Wernernner von Braonn, published a science fiction book titled Project Mars, a [music] technical tale. In this novel, he predicted a future mission to colonize Mars, led by a figure referred to as [music] Elon. And what about this 1958 western called Trackdown, in which a man named Trump, with a magnetic charisma and a cult-like following, comes to a town promising to save it by building a wall. You ask, "How do you build that wall?" You ask, and I'm here to tell you. >> One of the town's people comes after him, accusing him of fraud. >> You're a liar, Trump. [music]

3:05 >> What about Trump's recent assassination attempt? >> Did anybody predict that? >> And then I saw an attempt on his life. This bullet flew by his ear and it came so close to his head that it busted his drum. Eard drum. [music] The great American novelist Mark Twain even predicted his own death. Born on November 30th, 1835, just as Haley's comet [music] was passing by Earth, he would often say to people that he expected to go out with the comet upon its return, just as he predicted he died in 1910, [music] just one day after the comet made its closest approach to Earth. And finally, maybe the most eerie prediction of all, Michael Richards was a talented, prolific African-Amean sculptor in New

3:51 York. Michael Rolando Richards was a sculptor. Like all of his works were like obsessed with flight. And in the sculpture that made him most famous, he portrayed himself as a Tuskegee airman standing vertically erect and levitating off the ground and being impaled by airplanes. And the sculpture is called Tarbaby versus St. Sebastian. And St. Sebastian was the medieval [music] saint who you know is always depicted like pierced by arrows. So he depicted himself pierced by planes as a martyr pierced by planes. You know on the basis of the strength of his work including I assume that sculpture he was awarded studio space for 6 months in the twin towers. The lower Manhattan cultural council uh had been uh issuing studios to like co you know cohorts of 15

4:37 artists like for 6 months you know so two cohorts a year. He alone among those artists [music] uh had stayed in the studio the night of September 10th and was killed on the morning of September 11th. >> The examples of modern prophecies are endless. Alex Jones, say what you will about the guy as far as some of his other beliefs, but are you familiar with he he had an on-air call >> where if you let some terrorist group do it like the World [music] Trade Center, we know who to blame. And if there was an outside threat like a bin Laden who was a known CIA asset in the 80s, he's the boogeyman they need. It's just this absurd like you know literally what happened. I could go on forever. Survivorship bias. You say people make

5:23 crazy predictions. Pontificate all the time. If we gave airtime to all of the wrong historical predictions made, we'd be sitting here all day. But then I'd come back and I'd say, "But the level of detail in many of these predictions is beyond probability." And then you might come back and say, "But the probability of a bunch of eerily accurate predictions over a long enough time scale and with the internet at your disposal is actually more likely than you're presenting it, [music] Jesse. We can go around in endless circles on these arguments. How do we get to the bottom of them scientifically? I mean, it's not like the government looked into this stuff systematically for 20 years, employing hundreds of psychic spies to find hostages, drop nuclear bases, and predict military obstacles. Oh, wait. They did do all of that. There was in fact a CIA and DIA backed program called

6:08 Stargate which ran from 1972 to 1995. The official American psychic spy program. Every year it got refunded because it was useful. There are hundreds of successful remote viewing cases from the program. Many coming from the program's pride and joy remote viewer. Remote viewer number one, Joseph McMonagle. McMonogle used remote viewing to identify Soviet nuclear bases, predict key critical events, and he even helped locate kidnapped American General James Doer. In fact, McMmonle even won the prestigious Legion of Merit for his work in the Psychic Spy program, [music] adding to intelligence in over 200 critical national security cases. In 1979, he was tasked with remote viewing an impenetrable [music] building in a shipyard off the coast of the White Sea

6:55 in Russia. He described a massive nuclear submarine in the works. I spoke to McMmonle's colleague and fellow psychic spy Paul Smith about it >> and everybody thought that was crazy and it was pretty well dismissed. 8 months after that those pro those sessions were done, the Russians floated out the typhoon, the biggest submarine ever built and its missile tubes were in front of the superructure on the side. >> Pretty crazy. >> Exactly as Joe Joe described it. That same year, the Russians and the Americans were in a race trying to find a downed TU22 Russian spy plane in Africa. There was some very precious cargo on board, highly sensitive Russian cryptic equipment. [music] Dale Graph, who ran the psychic spy program at the time, had a woman named Rosemary Smith remote view the plane. She was given all

7:41 of Africa as a possible target. She ended up drawing a three square mile area in Zire. Even President Jimmy Carter recalls this being the most miraculous thing that occurred during his four-year presidential term. >> We located the plane where she said it was. It's the only time that I have ever experienced something that was inexplicable while I was president. >> Okay, all of that's kind of remarkable. But again, real science involves collecting large amounts of data. And surely no independent well- reggarded statisticians have looked at the Stargate psychic spy data. Well, that's actually not true. A statistician named Jessica Utts, who was president of the American Statistical Society, reviewed all of the Stanford Research Institute psychic spy data and a whole lot of other psychic experiments as well.

8:27 >> Uts uh did an analysis of a lot of uh evidence uh for psychic [music] functioning, not just the Stargate program, I don't believe. Uh and she found overwhelming evidence and she's been very >> very vocal about this. She based her studies on basic probability, specifically p values. In scientific terms, this means using statistics to compare the observed results to what [music] would be expected by chance. The p value basically answers the question, if chance were the only factor, how likely [music] is it that we'd see results this strong or stronger? When the p value is very small, researchers are more confident in ruling out chance as the explanation for findings. Say you have four cards face down. you know one of those cards is an ace of diamonds. The probability that you guess which

9:13 card is an ace of diamonds is 25%. Or has a p value of 0.25. [music] A commonly accepted practice in the field of statistical analysis is to say that a p value of less than 5% so [music] 0.05 would rule out chance as an explanation. In these cases results are statistically [music] significant. But that's not sufficient. Obviously low probability things still happen just by chance. So replicating these non-chance results across a lot of trials and collecting a lot of data is very important. Back to Jessica Uts's statistical assessment of psychic spying. First, she diligent the experimental protocols, making sure that they were sound protocols like this. The experimenttor takes a set of 200 photographs sourced at random from [music] the pages of National Geographic

9:59 magazines. Now, they take a participating remote viewer who hasn't seen any of these photographs. [music] The remote viewer is then placed in a completely isolated room during the experiment away from the experimentter and away from the photos. The experimentter then randomly selects a batch of five photos, [music] acting as a kind of beacon or sender of the information. The remote viewer would then be tasked with drawing each photo that was picked in tightly controlled conditions. A well- tested randomizer would be used to select the photos and the experimenters or even anybody in contact with the experimenters [music] was not allowed to communicate at all with the remote viewer. A final third person then judges what the remote viewer draws and see how it matches the batch of randomly selected photos. These

10:45 photos are incredibly wide ranging. They could be something like a mountain view or a cat sleeping in a car. The study of these attempts found that there was an overall hit rate of 35%, a number that was found to be repeatable over and over again. But there's more corroboration. Similar numbers were found in the trials done at the University of Edinburgh and the Ry Research Institute at Duke in North Carolina. So, how did Jessica UTS shake out in her statistical study? What was her overall assessment? Well, I'll just quote her. Using the standards applied to any other area of science, it is concluded that psychic functioning has been wellestablished. The statistical results of the studies examined are far beyond what is expected by chance. Arguments that these results could be due to methodological flaws in the experiments are soundly refuted.

11:33 Strong words. She said, you know, this is the quality of the evidence is so strong that if it were in any other field, nobody would question this. >> Yes. Making UT's conclusions even more meaningful is the fact that she partnered with psychologist Ray Hyman. Heyman was a total skeptic of the paranormal going into this and eager to find methodology issues and other rational explanations for the data. In fact, Heyman was a friend and colleague of perhaps the most prominent skeptic at the time, James Randy. Heyman even wrote for the skeptical [music] inquirer. In fact, he had previously written a report commissioned by the government two decades earlier that was highly critical of the famous psychic Yuri Geller. While Heyman did have some minor disagreements [music] with UTS, he agreed with her basic take. The psychic experiments were

12:20 free of obvious flaws and the data was too large and consistent to be dismissed as statistical flukes. Something unexplained was going on, even in Heyman's skeptical opinion. But you don't need to take my word for it. The study has been made publicly available and the report goes into far more detail than I've covered here. The link for the PDF is in the description of this video. Unfortunately, when it comes to psychic phenomena [music] we can't turn them into math, repeatable processes, or technology. So, we just conveniently ignore them, even if we have statistically significant data backing these studies. Jessica Uts actually captured this sentiment well, saying that it would be a waste of resources [music] to continue to look for proof of psychic phenomena and instead resources should be directed to the real [music] pressing matter of how

13:06 this ability works. Just look at the history of even conventional [music] science. We couldn't explain blackbody radiation when it was discovered in the 1860s. We needed Max Plunk's quantum revolution [music] in 1900. We also couldn't explain Mercury's orbit with Newtonian physics. We needed Einstein's space-time curvature to accurately [music] predict its path. When we discovered these anomalies, these observations were never fake or worthy of being ignored. We just couldn't explain them with math or theoretical physics at the time. Psychic phenomena is just the same. It's unexplainable, [music] not always repeatable, and can't be turned into math. But it's real, like statistically significant real, and by many accounts far more replicable than fields like psychology. As the great Arthur C. Clark once said, "Any

13:52 sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Well, cutting to the chase, thanks to this week's amazing American alchemist, Eric Wargo, the ability of the mind to predict the future in eerie ways is increasingly moving from magic to science. Waro has constructed a biological computational and physics-based model to describe exactly how our brains might have access to the future. And it's not woowoo or newagy at all. In fact, while it's still theoretical, it's very hard-headed, logical, and it actually makes sense even in a materialist universe. What is WarGo's thesis? Your brain is a timetraveling quantum computer. Okay, that sounds kind of insane, but hear me out. For a quantum computer to work, it generally needs to maintain coherence or

14:38 the ability to maintain multiple states at once. In order to do that, you usually need to maintain extremely cold environments with very little noise or signal interference in the system. Unfortunately, human and animal bodies are full of blood, water, mucus, and skin. They are the last thing from cold, and precise. They're warm, wet, and noisy. So, people assume our bodies don't have quantum capabilities. But there's a new field called quantum biology, uncovering all sorts of biological processes that involve quantum effects. The creation of enzymes involves quantum tunneling. Robins and other migratory birds have a protein in their eyes called a cryptochrome that uses electron spin to sense the earth's magnetic field acting as a quantum compass and helping them navigate home.

15:25 You have quantum biology, you have [music] um you know enzyme creation using quantum tunneling. You have birds navigating home using the CRY4 protein spin. You have you have other examples as well. >> Absolutely. >> And plant photosynthesis might depend on quantum entanglement. But what about the brain in everyday human perception? Well, theorists as prominent as Nobel Prizewinning physicist Roger Penrose have hypothesized that the brain is actually a room temperature quantum system. What does this mean practically? And how does this allow our brains to predict the future? Well, in quantum mechanics, you of course have Einstein's spooky action at a distance or spatial non-locality. Everybody likes to talk about this. entangled photon pairs across the world seeming to mirror each

16:10 other in ways that break Einstein's speed limit of light. But to me, perhaps the even more mind-blowing thing about quantum mechanics is that you don't just have spatial non-locality, you have temporal non-locality, spooky action across time. Say you entangle two photons with each other, photon A and photon B. You then run the classic double slit experiment with photon A. Wait a few days and run another double slit experiment with photon B. If you don't observe either photon in the experiment, you'll get an interference [music] pattern for both photon B and photon A. If you observe photon B in the second double slit experiment, it will collapse into a particle state and go through one of the slits. But here's where things [music] get crazy. It looks like the measurement and collapse of photon B is causing the collapsing of

16:57 photon A into a particle state 2, even though the double slit experiment with photon A is happening before the experiment with photon B. In other words, the two photons are entangled not only across space, but across time. This looks a whole lot like either retrocausality or dare I say it, time travel. But this basic principle in quantum mechanics actually probably applies to quantum computers, too. In fact, instead of the bits ones and zeros that classical computers operate on, quantum computers operate on these things called cubits that exist in superpositional states. Cubits can take on superp positions of states, right? And so what a lot of people in popular culture, popular science butcher when they describe superp positions is that

17:42 they say that the cubit is both one and zero at the same time. That's not true. It's not in the one state. It's not in the zero state. It's not in the one and zero state either. It's also not not in the one and not in the zero state. It's in a superp position state. Well, it turns out that you can actually reverse cubit positions in quantum computations. So, in a working quantum computer, it's been hypothesized even by some of the people building quantum computers right now that you can send information back in time. And if the brain is a quantum system, as Roger Penrose thinks it is, then maybe the brain can access its future knowledge state. Maybe the brain can send information back in time or have a pre-memory, if you will. Maybe that explains why humans can have

18:28 incredible intuition. Humans in their bodies often just instinctively know when certain things are about to happen. You come out of the womb with like, you know, a fear of snakes and with a choskian programmer for certain things. And that's not how a classical computer works because [music] it's thatformational time travel that's already happening. You can look at biological systems as models for how it works. Uh and yeah, in a quantum computer, you can theoretically scale up the that that causal indeterminacy that's happening on the the quantum level. And you scale that up uh in a quantum computer server that you leave plugged in for many years, uh it really opens the doorway to actually communicating across time. >> But this is a really important

19:14 distinction. Waro doesn't really believe in woo woo mind over matter. He doesn't think a psychic can simply view a downed airplane halfway across the world. They can only remote view that airplane if in the future they are given confirmation that that plane crashed in a specific location. Once that knowledge state is confirmed and stored in the person's brain, it can be sent back in time. Feedback may be important beyond just training remote viewers. You know, maybe maybe that's what remote viewers are really seeing. and they're seeing that feedback in the future. >> That's a really interesting point. >> I actually spoke with the founder of the CIA's psychic spy program, Hal Putoff. He was very open to Wargo being right that confirmatory feedback is required for the remote viewing to work. And

20:00 there's actually a reason to believe that the ability to send information back in time would be extremely adaptive for survival, explaining why humans are most intuitive around life and death situations. Penrose just has a theory and he's a theoretical physicist, not an experimentalist. What evidence do we actually have that the brain might be a quantum system? Well, Penrose's collaborator, anesthesiologist Steuart Hamarov, thinks he has a candidate. Tiny cylindrical structures found in the cytoplasm of plant and animal cells called microtubules. These structures have tiny indole rings distributed throughout tubulin that Hamarov thinks could maintain quantum coherence. When you turn the microtubules off with anesthesia, the rest of the brain functions completely normally. It's only the microtubules that shut off and the

20:47 person becomes unconscious. It's almost as if these micro structures are the on and off switches to our conscious perception. The Penrose thing, you know, this idea that he he wrote in the Emperor's New Mind that the microtubules um I guess that was the followup of the Emperor's New Mind with Hammeroff. The microtubules are a quantum sensor that collapses the wave function into an ien state. Yeah, I have some sympathy for going along that direction. >> So, you think there's some sort of quantum sensor in the in the brain and do you have a top candidate for the specific structure? >> Well, I can't rule it out. I mean, they certainly started from a very fundamental thing is and that is if you can get rid of consciousness by using an anesthetic, then however you're doing it must have something to do with consciousness. But we have microtubules throughout the body. Where in the brain

21:33 would quantum processing actually be happening? I give you Gary Nolan, a tenure Stanford professor who believes that the neuronal density in the codate impetamin of the brain's basil ganglia determines a person's psychic ability. In fact, if you hook an fMRI up to the brain and track a person's blood flow while they're playing the game of go, it seems like this part of the brain, the codate nucleus in patamon, lights up when a person makes a move purely based on intuition. In fact, these moves often seem irrational when they're made. but they somehow work out for the players that make them. >> In looking at the MRIs of some of these people, we noticed a area of the brain that seemed to be disturbed, let's say, or different in many of these

22:19 individuals. Uh so it's an area that I've talked about before between the head of the codate and nepotamin that had increased neural density and it was larger in all these individuals. And so you just ask the question, okay, what's unique about these individuals? Well, they're all highly functioning and he has to make snap decisions. What is that? That's intuition. One way to explain it would be intuition or just highly intelligent. And then surprisingly, when we looked in the family members, we found that the family members had it. >> Mhm. >> Which was fascinating. So that means that structure had a genetic component. >> That's I think how the brain works via intuition. Have you ever made a decision in your life that feels totally irrational incrementally? Like with the data you have, it makes no sense, but it

23:04 makes sense in the context of an end point that you know happens later. To me, that is your future knowledge state sending information back in time. That system is part of the reward system. Um and so it's it's involved in our uh registration of rewards, our learning based on rewards, our predictions based on past rewards. Um uh and that system I think is central you know it's central it's kind of the central classically in that classical computer uh model uh in terms of the organism you know changing its behavior based on rewards and getting excited about possible future rewards and

23:50 anticipated rewards and all that. Thanks to this week's amazing American alchemist, Eric Wargo, the ability of the mind to predict the future in eerie ways is increasingly moving from magic to science. We should definitely study the microtubules in the codate nucleus and potamin. That could be the specific part of the brain responsible for intuition and responsible for sending future quantum information back in time. But there's more evidence. Have you heard of a Russian scientist with the last name Lieberman? two friends of mine, Denil and David Lieberman, their father knew uh Hamarov and or I think knew Penrose rather and was uh really interested in cytokeleletal learning. Effee Lieberman is the father of my two friends David and Denil Lieberman and he

24:36 was the foremost researcher in consciousness in the Soviet Union in the 70s and 80s even before Penrose was doing his work. Epheim conjectured that quantum effects in which cytokeleletal membranes of cells, which is where the microtubules exist, communicate to one another and even encode semantic information. A lot of this is centered around an experiment he did with goldfish. He took four goldfish. The first he just froze right off the bat with nitrogen. The second he spun in a centriuge and then froze the fish with nitrogen while spinning it. The third he would spin in a centriuge, then give the fish a little time to reorient and then freeze it with nitrogen. And finally, he put the fourth fish to sleep, spun it in a centriuge, and then froze it. He then let the frozen fish thaw back to room

25:23 temperature, keeping them alive and letting them swim around after the experiment. What he found was nothing short of fascinating. Basically, all of the fish had their cytokeletons and neurons intact, and they could all continue swimming and navigating the water normally, except for the second fish. That poor fish's cytokeletons had completely disassembled because the nitrogen had frozen it while it was being spun around. And so, when it was brought back to normal temperature, it couldn't swim normally at all. It couldn't compute its environment or calculate where it was spatially. Just another point for cytokeleton and microtubules being essential for conscious awareness. I think we have to be open to this quantum you know uh precognizance of the future model. >> Absolutely. I mean I think that uh you

26:09 know Stuart Hammeroff I'm sure you know his work on microtubials. I think that's you know that's going to be the I think microtubules are probably going to be the the mechanism here. A lot of people simplistically say oh the brain is a quantum computer. It's not that simple. It's a it's a hybrid. It's a hybrid of classical and quantum systems, [music] you know, meshed. >> In the world of constant hype around artificial intelligence, I hope you've come out of this episode with new faith that the human mind will be very hard to replace with robots. Sorry, Optimus. Yeah, we might lose to them at chess. Our recall isn't as good, and we'll never be able to do mental math as fast as a calculator, but we can predict the future. So, let's lean into our very human differences and develop this sixth sense. what is at least for now our unbeatable intuition. As the great

26:56 Marshall McLuhan once said, "Every media extension of man is an amputation." If our brains are in fact quantum computers, we shouldn't merge with classical computers. We should rigorously investigate the growing field of quantum biology and not let the cult of Silicon Valley transhumanism or the desire to escape our human bandwidth limitations make us overlook the magic of our own biology. So, this interview with Eric Wargo was an absolute blast. I felt like I needed to turn this part into a video essay. The concepts here are so complex that I felt like they needed to be kind of cogently synthesized. [music] There are all sorts of crazy stuff that we spoke about in our interview that we didn't get into in this essay here. I just wanted to flesh out the basic concepts and make a

27:41 scientific compelling case for how the mind works that is distinct from artificial intelligence and classical computers. I also wanted to make a case for psychic functioning to scientific [music] skeptics. But stay tuned for my completely unfiltered raw conversation [music] with Eric Wargo. That's going to come in about a week. We get into all sorts of other crazy stuff. It's going to be a lot of fun. Until next week, my [music] name is Jesse Michaels and this is American Alchemy. I want to take a moment to thank one of today's sponsors, Ziotics. I've been using their pre-alcohol product for years, and when the opportunity came up to work with them, I jumped at it because it's one of the few things I actually drink before a night out with friends when it's time to celebrate a

28:27 special event. And that little decision I make before I go out changes everything. Ziotics pre-alcohol probiotic drink is the world's first genetically engineered probiotic. It was invented by PhD scientists to specifically tackle rough mornings after drinking. Here's how it works. When you drink, alcohol gets converted into a toxic byproduct in the gut. It's a buildup of this byproduct, not dehydration that's to blame for the rough days after drinking. Pre-alcohol produces an enzyme to break this byproduct down. Just remember to make pre-alcohol your first drink of the night. Of course, drink responsibly and you'll feel your best tomorrow. I have Ziotics before my first drink of the

29:13 night and I wake up feeling totally normal the next morning. As you'll know, if you're older than say the age of 28 or 29 is not usual. So, go to zbiotics.com/jesse to learn more and get 15% off your first order when you use Jesse at checkout. Z Biotics is also backed with a 100% money back guarantee. So, if you're unsatisfied for any reason, they'll refund your money, no questions asked. Remember to head to ziotics.com/jesse and use the code jesse at checkout for 15% off.