Two international experiments attempted to replicate a controversial precognition study by Daryl Bem. The experiments reversed the usual cause-effect sequence: participants responded to stimuli before a prime appeared, testing whether response times would be longer for incongruent stimuli. The preregistered confirmatory hypothesis was not supported in either experiment. Exploratory analyses in Experiment 1 found a significant effect only among English-language participants, not those using translations.
Panpsychism, the view that consciousness is a fundamental feature of reality rather than a product of brain activity, offers an elegant solution to the mind-body problem but is often dismissed as untestable. This paper presents a panpsychist model that treats consciousness as a higher physical dimension, a speculative idea that nonetheless yields empirically testable predictions. While the model is likely wrong, its main purpose is to demonstrate how metaphysical theories of consciousness can be specified to allow scientific testing, thereby bridging the gap between philosophy and empirical science.