Other than having a knack for seeing the most obscure connections, while missing the blatantly obvious ones (great for paranoid doomsday theories) and for having almost daily deja vu experiences, nope.
I also think people give the brain too little credit to chalk up cognitive abilities to something supernatural - the brain is capable of quickly processing countless small signals into a cohesive thought or feeling (intuition), so knowing without explanation that someone isn't well isn't much of a stretch. As for empathy, humans are social creatures by nature, so it's only natural that we'd be able to associate another human's pain with our own. I personally believe the only reason it stands out to us is that we are desensitized to a lot of the negative things that go on in our world (for our own mental/emotional safety, as empathy would overload with all of that factored in). In other words, we have grown (or shrank, depending on your perspective) to only allow empathy for those really close to us, or to those who are in plights that hit close to our hearts.
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I've also noticed in myself the ability to create alternate personalities, not necessarily at will, but of necessity. I usually end up destroying them, or, to be more accurate, "unthinking" them, and with them all the emotion that I had bottled up inside them. I've had rare moments where I let them go unchecked though, and ended up hurting a few relationships (friendhips, not romantic) in the process. (Please see linked thread for example - to be added soon). I've since saved a copy of a 3-hour MSN conversation with a good friend that basically freaked the hell out of the both of us as a reminder to myself not to let my alternates get to a point beyond my control.
I also think people give the brain too little credit to chalk up cognitive abilities to something supernatural - the brain is capable of quickly processing countless small signals into a cohesive thought or feeling (intuition), so knowing without explanation that someone isn't well isn't much of a stretch. As for empathy, humans are social creatures by nature, so it's only natural that we'd be able to associate another human's pain with our own. I personally believe the only reason it stands out to us is that we are desensitized to a lot of the negative things that go on in our world (for our own mental/emotional safety, as empathy would overload with all of that factored in). In other words, we have grown (or shrank, depending on your perspective) to only allow empathy for those really close to us, or to those who are in plights that hit close to our hearts.
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I've also noticed in myself the ability to create alternate personalities, not necessarily at will, but of necessity. I usually end up destroying them, or, to be more accurate, "unthinking" them, and with them all the emotion that I had bottled up inside them. I've had rare moments where I let them go unchecked though, and ended up hurting a few relationships (friendhips, not romantic) in the process. (Please see linked thread for example - to be added soon). I've since saved a copy of a 3-hour MSN conversation with a good friend that basically freaked the hell out of the both of us as a reminder to myself not to let my alternates get to a point beyond my control.