What is does foresight mean?
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Answer: Foresight is the ability to see into the future.
Every once in a while, when they’re really feeling like life is getting under their skin and that there must be more, people come to me and ask for readings. Maybe it’s something deep they need help with; maybe someone else they know asked them to do it for them; maybe curiosity got the better of them… whatever the case, a reading usually consists of some handwriting analysis, some tarot cards of personal significance combined with whatever psychic insight I am able to glean from holding your hand or touching your shoulder no different than what you might get at a palm reading or having your fortune told by a carnival sign on Main Street.
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Foresight is a kind of mental time travel that allows us to imagine how future events will come about. It’s one of the most powerful human intellectual faculties, and our capacity for it distinguishes humans from other animals. Individuals with low foresight–for example, people with autism spectrum disorder–often miss important social clues in the present because they cannot form accurate predictions of how things will play out later on.
Expanding this idea, I shall say that when we speak about foresight we often speak in such terms such as “the ability to see into the future,” or perhaps even “knowing” something without being taught. Events which unfold exactly as we predicted them prior to their happening would then be said to have been the product of foresight.
In the opening definition, it was noted that foresight allows us to “imagine how future events will come about.” Without suggesting that a person is necessarily psychic for possessing this ability, I would like to suggest the idea that there are degrees of foresight present in everyone.
For example: if we were discussing an individual who possessed the ability to make accurate predictions about precisely how an event will turn out (and subsequently whether or not they would attend said event), then we would be describing someone with greater foresight than another individual.