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Re:Toyota owners have to pay $8/month to keep using their ke... by penteract on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @01:37AM (#29548895)
In the book, it's impossible to act on information from the future, whereas in the film that clearly happens in the phone call near the end.

This means that if the daughter had died in a climbing accident in the film, the mother would have to have chosen to let that happen/not warn her, whereas to avoid the disease, the only option would have been not to have the child. In the book, that wasn't an option; learning the language changed her subjective experience of time, but did not give a superpower.

Re:Toyota owners have to pay $8/month to keep using their ke... by rpaddock on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @08:21AM (#29551183)
"...impossible to act on information from the future..."

Might want to read:

Feeling the Future: Experimental Evidence for Anomalous Retroactive Influences on Cognition and Affect Daryl J. Bem Cornell University

https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/features/psp-a0021524.pdf

This work has been replicated many times by others because no one believed it.

Also look up Decision Augmentation Theory.

Re:Toyota owners have to pay $8/month to keep using their ke... by joegreen on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @05:34PM (#29559051)
That paper was an interesting read :) I googled a bit about it and found possible explanation https://replicationindex.com/2018/01/05/bem-retraction/
Re:Toyota owners have to pay $8/month to keep using their ke... by rpaddock on Thursday December 16, 2021 @10:28AM (#29579117)
There is also:

"Feeling the future: A meta-analysis of 90 experiments on the anomalous anticipation of random future events"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC4706048/

The book 'Real Magic' is related:

https://www.deanradin.com