(April 23, 2016 at 8:15 pm)Evie Wrote:(April 23, 2016 at 4:04 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: Well, if you knew when you died that date would probably change right on the spot, so makes no sense not to wish to know that, in fact it could help to prevent it numerous times in a row.
I sometimes wish I wasn't so smart. I don't know if that's the answer you were looking for, but yeah.
Hardly smart considering that if the date would change then it would mean I didn't really know it. That makes no sense.
#If you argue back at me I'm gonna ignore your response because we're not debating this but I thought I'd just let you know that the whole point of knowledge is that it implies truth.
I'm with EP on this one... I'm a hard determinist but I can't see any way around the paradox that if you were informed of your future it would necessarily change because that incoming information would become another variable influencing your subsequent decision-making. For instance say there were two doors and some outside force informed you that you were gonna choose door B, you could always choose door A. Even if it said that after all toing and froing - i.e. after all the influence of knowing the outcome on your decision making process... after all the WIFOM - you were gonna choose door B, you could still choose door A. So as I see it, the experience of choice and knowing the future are incompatible.
