"'This means that in adults, there is a tremendous amount of real-world processing going on, 80 percent, when there is nothing to process,' says Weliky. 'This suggests that with your eyes closed, your visual processing is already running at 80 percent, and that opening your eyes only adds the last 20 percent. The big question here is what is the brain doing when it's idling, because it's obviously doing something important.'"
I think the brain's "idling" is spent manufacturing reality -- perhaps even literally, by collapsing enormous numbers of quantum waveforms and thus selecting a single intelligible world-line out of the multiversal froth. "Psychic" phenomena such as premonitions of disaster may be caused by a sort of bleed-through between closely related universes, manifested subatomically in the central nervous system.
If the brain can be "tricked" into pronounced psychic activity during altered states of consciousness, it's certainly conceivable that direct neural interfacing could produce a potent -- and reliable -- organic quantum computer able to peer into the "future." And maybe even into the past.
A similar mechanism is described in Robert Charles Wilson's excellent novel "Blind Lake." In "Blind Lake," the eggheads in charge of the fictional "quantum telescope" technology don't know how it works. Ultimately, the unique perspective it provides becomes a two-way street and alien contact (of a sort) is accomplished.
Has something comparable already happened in the real world? My answer is "yes."
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