No. of Recommendations: 5
Quote from one of Dean Radin´s books:
Presentiment in the lab is one thing. Are these effects meaningful in the real world? A 2024 study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest-impact multidisciplinary science journals, was entitled “Brain Activity of Professional Investors Signals Future Stock Performance.”[75]
The study published by Leonard Diederik van Brussel of Erasmus University in the Netherlands and his colleagues used a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) instrument to visualize the deep brain activity of thirty-six professional investors as they predicted future stock prices. Van Brussel and his team found that the investors could not consciously predict future market performance better than chance. But unconsciously they could. The portion of their brain associated with reward and motivation (called the nucleus accumbens) had higher activity for investment predictions that ended up overperforming in the market.
The article reported, “These findings remained robust, even when controlling for stock metrics and investors’ predictions…. Cross-validated prediction analysis indicated that [the nucleus accumbens’s] activity could significantly predict future stock performance…. Accumulating evidence does suggest that humans, including professional investors, may share a neural response to stimuli that is related to future market-level performance.”
This conclusion was followed by the not-so-subtle hint “suggesting to financial institutions the investment value of collecting such information.” In other words, the presentiment effect as observed in the laboratory can be, and most probably already is being, used to make money. That the most successful businesspeople rely on psi is one of those secrets, like magic, that is admitted only quietly among trusted friends after consuming three or more beers.
Don´t shoot the messenger :)
