Humans can predict the future: the science of precognition with Dr Julia Mossbridge

People have believed in the ability to sense future events for millennia, from the oracles of Ancient Greece through to the Biblical prophets and pagan belief systems. But the human ability to predict future events is actually an ability that has been tested in the lab, with results showing that our bodies and minds can sense things that haven't happened yet, beyond statistical chance.

Hidden Variables' first guest is Dr Julia Mossbridge, a neuroscientist and one of the world's leading researchers into precognition. She's the co-author of The Premonition Code, one of the most comprehensive explorations of precognition, which she wrote with Theresa Cheung, and has published a significant body of peer-reviewed research into the topic.

On this episode, Dr Mossbridge unpacks some of her research into this extraordinary human ability, the theoretical frameworks for how it might be possible, and what it says about the nature of being human.

Artwork by Justine Hyde-Mobbs.