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"...impossible to act on information from the future..."

Might want to read:

Feeling the Future: Experimental Evidence for Anomalous Retroactive Influences on Cognition and Affect Daryl J. Bem Cornell University

This work has been replicated many times by others because no one believed it.

Also look up Decision Augmentation Theory.

That paper was an interesting read :) I googled a bit about it and found possible explanation https://replicationindex.com/2018/01/05/bem-retraction/

There is also:

"Feeling the future: A meta-analysis of 90 experiments on the anomalous anticipation of random future events"

The book 'Real Magic' is related: