450 years ago, on July 2, 1566, the French astrologer, physician and pharmacist Michel de Nostrdam, known as Nostradamus, died. Despite the fact that there are still legends about the miraculous power of the medicines he created (although the recipes that have survived to this day do not go beyond the traditional medicine of the 16th century), they did not bring Nostradamus worldwide fame. On a marble slab above his grave, there is an inscription "Here lie the bones of the famous Michel Nostradamus, the only one of all mortals who was worthy to capture with his almost divine feather, thanks to the influence of the stars, the future events of the whole world." The unrelenting interest in his person is associated with a person's desire to at least slightly open the veil that hides from us events that have not yet happened
ENCRYPTED CONCEPTS
Nostradamus published 942 quatrains (encrypted quatrains), annual almanacs and a number of prophetic works that are still interpreted. At the same time, critics of Nostradamus believe that he did not predict, but described his personal speculations. It is worth noting that the quatrains were written in a mixture of four languages, and practically no dates were indicated in them, the time sequence was not observed, and the quatrains themselves were confused. Nostradamus commented on this code by saying that because of the possible harm “for the present and especially for the future,” he deliberately expounds everything in the most vague and mysterious terms. However, history knows many other, much more convincing examples of the ability of people to look into the future.
As for the ability of humans to foresee events that should occur, according to the results of studies conducted by French neuroscientists, the brain of higher primates, including humans, is capable of creating special neural networks
Thus, the English writer and publicist Herbert Wells (1866–1946) predicted wars with the use of poisonous gases, aviation and a device like a laser in 1898, and an atomic bomb in 1914. Wells also envisioned central heating, central air conditioning, electrical kitchen appliances, and in-situ concrete building technology.
PREVENT OR PREVENT?
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There are many known cases of predictions of tragedies and disasters. However, it is often difficult to establish the sequence of events, namely, what happened first - the catastrophe itself or its prediction. In other words, many predictions are made after the fact and are only passed off as such.
In doing so, we sometimes discover in ourselves the ability to foresee, or rather intuitively anticipate events that may occur. For example, nine-year-old Eryl Mae Jones from the village of Aberfan (UK) told her mother her dream: “I went to school and she's not there. Something black descended directly onto the school. This happened on the eve of October 20, 1966, the day of the Aberfan tragedy, when a heavy downpour turned half a million tons of waste from the coal mines located above Aberfan into a giant landslide. He went to a local school with 115 children aged 7 to 10 and 28 adults.
According to the orientalist, doctor of historical sciences Igor Mozheiko, also known as science fiction writer Kir Bulychev, it is impossible to predict the future. He believed that predicting the future can be based solely on knowledge. In particular, another science fiction writer Ivan Efremov ("The Andromeda Nebula", "Razor's Edge", etc.) foresaw that diamonds would be found in Yakutia. However, this “prediction” had a scientific basis, since Efremov was a geological scientist who went on an expedition.
As for the ability of humans to anticipate events that are about to occur, according to the results of studies carried out by French neuroscientists, the brain of great primates, including humans, is capable of creating special neural networks. The connections between neurons form a kind of "computation reservoir" where many impulses mix together or "bounce" off each other like waves in a river. Thanks to this, unique combinations of impulses are formed that allow us not only to adapt to an unexpected turn of events, but also to be ready for it.
Prepared by Alexandra Demetskaya, Cand. biol. sciences