Reply #9: Backwards causation

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is well known phenomenon in quantum physics. It makes the head hurt, but it's fascinating. Also, Quantum parallels with mental phenomena are much more promising avenue than the still prevailing reduction of mental phenomena to classical mechanics.

Interestingly and somewhat parallel to OP, human cognition constantly projects mental future images or states, possible futures, which are simultaneously or near simultaneously valued according to preferability, and preferability valuation of potential futures affects actualizing behaviour. For example banana peel on road and mental future image of slipping and getting hurt causes consciously or subconsciously change in present walking pattern to avoid slipping. So, future influences present actions in most ordinary human experience.

Reductionists may object that imagination cannot have causal power over classical mechanics, contrary to common everyday experience plus vast body of experimental evidence. But why consider mental phenomena any less real than classical mechanics? Just because they and these cannot be measured directly with measuring devices available? If mental phenomena are, say, 4D-spacetime events and measuring devices can directly measure only 3D-objects?