There is a fascinating lengthy transcript of a portion of an interview of Eric Wargo at https://ideaspace.substack.com/p/author-eric-wargo-on-dreams-premonitions . That web page also has audio files to the full interview. Part of the interview says the following.
"YANCEY: How do you explain it?
ERIC:
This is what I've been thinking about for the last ten years, and I've
written two books about now. A lot of lines of evidence from a lot of
different fields are converging on a possible explanation, and it's
going to have to do with the brain. This isn't a spiritual phenomenon,
although I believe that spirituality can very much involve the brain and
its tricks.
Let's start with physics. In physics it’s
become much more accepted by a growing number of quantum physicists that
at the smallest scales in nature, causes go both directions. The fact
that we only perceive cause going one direction is an effect of entropy
and things happening on a larger scale. But on the tiniest scales of
particle interactions, there's really no way of telling. Temporal
directionality is a lot less meaningful there.
Number two, what's even more interesting is in the last few years
there's been a growth of research in quantum computing. That's where you
try to scale up these tiny quantum effects into something that we can
use to create a quantum computer. What they're finding in quantum
computers is that you can reverse the temporal direction of a
computation. It effectively means you could produce an output before an
input.
YANCEY: Say that again?
ERIC:
You could theoretically produce an output before an input in a quantum
computer, because you can reverse the direction, the temporal order, of a
computation. Now, I'm not an expert in this field, so the details are
lost on me as well. But this supports the notion that there are ways to
scale up this causal directional indeterminacy that goes on at the very
smallest scales in nature.
Let's take it to another field.
Quantum biology is an emerging field over the last two decades. Just a
little over a decade ago it was discovered that plants are essentially
quantum computers, because photosynthesis uses some of these same
quantum principles. There has been a search for three decades now for
quantum processes going on in the brain, because if there's anything in
nature that ought to be a quantum computer, it would be the brain,
right? There's growing evidence for this possibility that at least
certain structures within neurons, called microtubules, might have
quantum computing processing properties. If that proves to be the case
that may be your explanation for how this works. Because one thing
microtubules do in neurons is they reshape the tips of neurons as they
form connections to each other. They’re involved in processes of memory
and learning, because that's what memory learning is: the formation of
new connections. The reinforcement of those connections as they're used,
or the withdrawing of connections that aren't used, is the basis of
memory and learning.
Now if those molecules that are controlling that process are getting information about their own futures, they're able to prespond
to information ahead in time, even if we're talking a few seconds.
That’s a potential mechanism where our learning processes, our
connectivity in our brain as a function of memory, is influenced by
experiences ahead in time. Not just in the past, the usual way we think
of memory. When you study precognition and how it manifests in real life
and in laboratory life, it looks an awful lot like memory, just memory
going in the wrong direction. The similarities to memory are obvious if
you pay attention to the research findings, and to the vast anecdotal
data of dreams. It looks like memory for things future."
While at my local library today I noticed that one of its branches has available Wargo's book called Precognitive Dreamwork and the Long Self: Interpreting Messages from Your Future. I thus placed a hold on that book. Also while at the library I checked out a book called Psychic Abilities For Beginners: Awaken your Intuitive Senses, by Melanie Barnum.
