| Another attempt at dumbing it down: We sometimes don't know what will happen until it does. The best we can do is to make a guess. Sometimes this guess will be very often good, but it is still a guess and we need to be open to the idea that our guess was wrong in some aspects. Suppose we could have a perfect guess though. We can use the guess to figure out what would happen and it would always work. Okay, lets use it to determine what happens in the future in which we use it to determine what happens. Do you see the issue here? The guess references itself. So it can't predict the future in advance of it. There comes a point where it is looping and giving you the leading edge of what is knowable given the amount of time that has passed so far. So we don't have the perfect guess, even when we have the perfect guess. We don't know what will happen before it happens, even if we know the rules that tell us what happens before they happen. There are a bunch of wierd things that get implied by the math that is consequent to this, especially when you get into transpositional structures, but it isn't silly so much as it is non-sensory. I mean, it does sound laughable. When Feynman said we guess when we do science and then validate the guesses with experiments people did laugh. Yet this is not because it is silly. It is because the non-sensory cases we can't differentiate from can only be differentiated from the sensory cases via the experiment. What often happens though is that directly after the moment people pretend that it was all known before hand. It is a tricky moment, the present. |