Why we can't predict the future
The future is a mental construct of creatures who believe in and observe cause and effect. We can never know what is going to happen in the future simply because the future is a mental construct and does not exist in the universe, Einsteinian calculations notwithstanding. One can think what might happen, one can hope that something will happen, one can dread what is sure to happen, one can consider all that could happen, but until something happens, the future does not exist except in someone's mind. Of course, when something happens, it is no longer the future but the present.
Consider all the billions upon billions of minds on the planet. There must be an equal number of futures enclosed in those minds, because each of us pictures existence in a unique way. Chance says that some things prognosticated will "come true" simply because there are enough ideas and enough occurrences that some of them are bound to intersect. Someone can guess and be right, but no one can know what will happen because knowledge does not apply here.
posted by Not the Buddha @ 9:07 PM
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Personally, I believe the future is an result of today's creactions. So if one wants to pull the future toward them with a tinge of familiarity, they have to create every day, something consistent, to introduce enough way in the ocean of probability to make more probable a specific outcome.
Of course, the universe is more aware than us and it can't be cheated. So to tune into the genuinity filter, one must completely beleive they have the power to create and not because they want to receive a result, but because they know they will just see themselves in future's mirror.
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