to predict the future; to predict (something) in the future
We exist perpetually at all moments within our life-span; our extraphysical ego component passes from the ego existing at one moment to the ego existing at the next. During unconsciousness, the EPC is 'time-free'; it may detach, and connect at some other moment, with the ego existing at that time-point. That’s how we precog. We take an autohypno and recover memories brought back from the future moment and buried in the subconscious mind.
The editorial chronoscope, whereby we precog the future, developed a fault, somehow, when we were making up the July issue.
I wasn’t convinced that some of the Riders in there won’t precog our plans to save themselves.
Sascha’s pre-cogged it. To his intense astonishment.
‘That’s ridiculous! Wizards can’t pre-cog, Lentos, and not even a mage could pre-cog that far ahead! Or are you saying he fooled us about that, too?’ ‘What I’m saying is even more disturbing. He never outright lied about his ability to touch the mage talent, but he did say—and I quote from the records—“not even a wild wizard has the power of precognition.”’
antedating 1948
H. Beam Piper, 'Police Operation'
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