Future

Two similar adults sit in a pitch-black room. One is deaf; his name is Arimel. The other, Nostradamus, hears the metal-on-metal chink a cocked firearm and footsteps approaching.

Arimel is clueless. But Nostradamus knows. The only difference between the two is their perceptual abilities, yet one can much more accurately predict the future.

If you disengaged your brain’s heuristic shortcuts, which increase attention and speed but ignore perceptual details, you’d become holistically aware of a situation: its context; related events; probabilities. This increased clarity would be nearly a sixth sense. Like a gut feeling, you might even see the future.