(August 17, 2019 at 3:22 am)Grandizer Wrote: And besides, if all past contingencies point to X, then they inevitably point to X.
If all past contingencies SO FAR point to X, and you know exactly what their results will be, you can add a new event that changes things.
So in a sense it's knowing two futures: the future with X that will definitely happen if you don't do the thing, and the future without X that you can create.
So for example we can't know for sure the results of the 2020 election. But if you could see in your crystal ball that Trump will win (and all the contingencies that lead to that result) you could introduce a new event that prevents that future.
