What would a biological creature need in order to see into the future?

Inspired by the Paycheck and Minority Report movies.

So far as I can tell, physical time travel is impossible for humans, and so I searched to see the future possible scientific or theoretical possibilities, and after surfing around, based on these two answers from another SE site it seems theoretically possible.

Is there any actual science behind the "time viewing" used in Paycheck?

• The question is from @Iszi.

No one has brought up the variable of bending space time then shooting the laser through it... Theoretically that is possible. If space/time is a fabric as Einstein predicted it can be warped stretched and pulled in any direction. So if you could theoretically do that time viewing would be possible. Probably not for our species we aren't smart enough but to say it is impossible is outright rubbish.

• From @john doe answer.

Yes, the explanation given in the film (that with a powerful enough telescope you can 'see around' the curvature of the universe, assuming of course the universe has a definite shape, AND furthermore that that shape is round or spherical) is 'technically speaking' the accurate explanation according to several certain schools of theoretical physics, although, as all physics is concerned, also debated and refuted in others.

I should add that the whole part of 'dialing in' a certain time or date is probably complete crap, but what the heck, if we can except any of the premises of relativity or quantum theory, why not, lets go with it.

From @rahdragonfly answer.

So based on that, it seems like technologically it's possible, but now I'm curious can it happen biologically, that it's also possible to seeing the future?

My real question is what organs or method (it's not required to be the same method as the Paycheck one) are needed for a biological creature to be able to see into the future?

Without using technology like that used in the two movies and literally seeing the future personally either from visions or mental imagery like dreams or hallucination or direct vision, not predicting events or certain stuff to infer a conclusion about future events like most scientists do. The creature in my mind is an intelligent type but I won't exclude a non-intelligent creature either.

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