The Future Is Now: We Can Predict The Future

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We have the ability to predict the future; our sixth, Ms. Cleo, sense is controlled by our midbrain dopamine system located in our brain. According to Joel Achenbach's, "The Future is Now: It's Heading Right at Us , But We Never See It Coming" and "We CAN predict the future (a bit): Why the brain knows what's going to happen before it does", by Graham Smith, humans have a prosaic ability to foresee events. I conquer with this notion; we can make common sense predictions, not too far out of the present tense, quite frequently. However, we are incapable of making over the boundary predictions, e.g., the return of Jesus Christ. Graham asserts how we make predictions in general using scientific research; while Achenbach argues how we overlook major advances and predict based on the next primary. …show more content…
This text is an informative piece, I.e., Graham's objective is to relay information to the audience regarding the subject. The Article is resourceful: Graham makes a claim, and he backs his claim up with substantial scientific data. In this research, scientist perform simple experiments on individuals that demonstrates how we make accurate predictions regarding common events, but we fail to make accurate predictions when we are not able to use our surrounding activities to facilitate the thought process. To clarify, Smith

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