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forecognition en · NOUN

Etymology

From fore- + cognition.

Meanings

  1. (countable, rare, uncountable) Understanding or knowledge of something in advance; precognition.
    • Some people call these memories of the future. Lowenstein has suggested “forecognition”. 2018, Charles T Ross, Unlocking Consciousness:
    • The thermodynamic cost of forecognition is immense. Even in the case of modest forecognitions, we are dealing with negative entropies many orders of magnitude higher than in the case of the reflex actions of neuronal loops. 2013, Werner Loewenstein, Physics in Mind: A Quantum View of the Brain, page 134:

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