It occurs to me that future glimpsing may be possible but that it would be impossible to prove and hard to recognize because no glimpses would never come true.
Think.
If one were to, at a point in time, glimpse into the future, they would be seeing a result of the current path they were on prior to that point in time. Being that the mere act of glimpsing into the future has now altered that current path you will inadvertently and invariably change the path you were just on making the future you are glimpsing now impossible.
In accordance with this thinking it is possible that someone might get confused and believe that the future which they glimpsed came true. This would happen primarily because the act of glimpsing the future happened to not change the current path significantly enough to change the end result however, due to the addition of glimpsing the future into the path, minute details such as the exact timing of events will be altered if only by the amount of time it took to glimpse the future and thus no glimpsed future will be 100% accurate although it may appear to be. In the same respect, glimpsing the future could cause someone to change their path so drastically that no part of the glimpsed future will ever come true and the person may never realize they were actually glimpsing the future.
Ponder.
Someone is able to tap into the supercomputer of G-d in which all knowledge of the goings on of the universe and all its people and creatures and possibilities are logged into it. They are able to develop a program which takes all this data and is able to predict all possible futures by locking in a person’s current path of action and accounting for all possible directions they might take and all possible people, places, and things they might come into contact with and all of the possible interactions this person could have with each. The program can then select the top ten options which will yield the best outcomes. A person walks up to the supercomputer of G-d and opens the future predicting program. This person wants the program to determine the ten best possible outcomes from moving forward from the current path they are on.
The program locked into the supercomputer of G-d containing all the knowledge and possibilities of and in the universe will give this person the same top 10 results every single time regardless of the path they are on. Every result will display the person still standing in front of the computer waiting for an answer. The logic behind this: The person was currently on the path of going to the computer to have it make a decision on what would be the next course of action which would yield the best result. The person is waiting for the computer program to make a decision for it, so the current path is waiting for the computer to make a decision of the possible outcomes of the person’s current path, so this is all the computer will see, so no paths are different and can’t move beyond the computer so all 10 options will be the same and be the same for every person. Thus, creating a future glimpsing program would be impossible.
Note.
Well. It made sense in my head. I was stoned.
Hi,
Another way to look at this may be use the “Eternal Now” idea. Lets say that time does not exist, but is a consequence of movement in space. The Eternal Now idea means that everything that has ever happenned or will happen has in fact already happenned “now”. If (if) this model is closer to the reality than our more common linear models, then it may be more accurate to say that rather than us catching a glimpse of some future event, it may just as well be ourselves catching a glimpse of ouselves at a different “place” in the Eternal Now. Who knows - just ideas.
Peace,
Jon
That is a very interesting theory. I’ve never heard of it before, I’ll have to go read up. ;} Thanks for the commentary!