Unfiltered perception

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In Mostly Harmless, the fifth and final book of the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy trilogy, the Guide Mark II is a Vogon-created sentient item equipped with "Unfiltered Perception".

We, being mere three-dimensional beings living in fourth-dimensional space, have extremely limited perception. And because each being's universe is shaped by its perceptions, our six senses mean that we experience very little of the actual world around us. The Guide Mk II has no filters at all. It sees and exists in every possible universe at the same time, sees everything that is as it truly is, rather than just what it tells itself it sees.

Because it has Unfiltered Perception, the Guide Mk II is impervious to the flow of time, because it is not trapped by a strictly linear point of view and thus position in time, like we are. It exists in every moment of time simultaneously. If you want it to do something for you, it will merely act in what you call 'the past' in order to make sure that what you wanted would appear naturally in your 'present'.

The Guide Mk II, in direct assault of the values set forth by its predecessor, bears upon its cover only one legend: PANIC.