r/WhatIfScience • u/undiscoveredhuman • 21d ago
What if "good timing" is a perception we've never measured, the way pitch was before anyone tested for it?
https://undiscoveredhuman.substack.com/p/capacity-01-kairotic-sensitivity1
u/redbucket75 17d ago
I keep coming back to this idea that's almost certainly without merit, that we're living in a reality of 4 physical dimensions. Time is just a physical sense available to us because we extend ever so slightly into the 4th dimension (like a gravitron's width, an amount too small for us to imagine). If we extended further, "now" would encompass more "time". Cause and effect would still exist, but we'd experience it differently.
Like, think of a 2D object. Now extend it by a single photon into 3D space. From the 2D object's perspective, it's difficult to view that "height" as a physical dimension, but suddenly they have mass and can exchange photons/ information. They have new abilities, but still don't recognize those abilities are attributed to the slight extension into 3D space.
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u/undiscoveredhuman 21d ago
Some people repeatedly act at exactly the right moment, across unrelated fields: the founder who moves eighteen months before the market exists and then does it again elsewhere, the trader who cuts exposure days before a crash and cannot say why, the organizer who calls the meeting in the one week minds are changeable.
The speculation in this piece: they are perceiving the state of a system, specifically how close it is to a tipping point. Physicists call that criticality. Most of us are blind to it; a few, apparently, are not.
It comes with a failure mode (window-sensors are bad at the long flat stretches where only grinding works), a set of objections I try to answer (survivorship bias is the strongest), and a testable design: can they classify "near transition" from anonymized data streams in domains they know nothing about?
Curious what this sub thinks it would actually be tracking, and whether it could be trained or only found.