RE: Jesus' Mission....
November 15, 2019 at 1:35 pm
(This post was last modified: November 15, 2019 at 1:41 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Well, sure they could have, in some possible world, and in the multiple worlds they made every choice. I just actualized the choice they made in this one, which just so happened to be what I knew they would choose beforehand, since I'm the guy doing the actualizing.
Assuming that free will is possible, foreknowledge is not. You can't know the outcome of a future choice, if a person can choose b when you foresaw them choosing a. They have to choose a, or what you possessed was not knowledge.
I don't know about magic, but sure...if there ever was an option, and you could rewind the clock, it's conceivable that you could take the road to the left instead of the road to the right. The possibility of choice is a basic requirement. That possibility is not real if the future can be known, and if the future can be known, no amount of winding clocks backwards or forwards will yield any other outcome.
It's an interesting difference between things like causal determinism and fatalism. In the fatalist universe where precognitives know what will happen...if they saw you saving the world in 2050, even your death in 2020 couldn't change that. Nothing could. No interceding set of circumstances or events, no outside agent, not even you could change it.
Assuming that free will is possible, foreknowledge is not. You can't know the outcome of a future choice, if a person can choose b when you foresaw them choosing a. They have to choose a, or what you possessed was not knowledge.
I don't know about magic, but sure...if there ever was an option, and you could rewind the clock, it's conceivable that you could take the road to the left instead of the road to the right. The possibility of choice is a basic requirement. That possibility is not real if the future can be known, and if the future can be known, no amount of winding clocks backwards or forwards will yield any other outcome.
It's an interesting difference between things like causal determinism and fatalism. In the fatalist universe where precognitives know what will happen...if they saw you saving the world in 2050, even your death in 2020 couldn't change that. Nothing could. No interceding set of circumstances or events, no outside agent, not even you could change it.
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