Scenario:
Man goes to a tarot card reader. The reader stated clearly that the man will have a motor bike accident in 10 days time.
The man then stays away from motor bikes for the next 10 days and on the eleventh day gets run over by a truck.
He goes back to the tarot reader and says that the reading was false as he didn't have a motor bike accident and instead on the 11th day he got hit by a truck.
The tarot reader says that she predicted his future and he tried to avoid it and the destiny of having an accident just simply changed from that which included a motor bike to that which included a truck.
The man asks the reader then why didn't you just simply predict that I would have an accident and not be so specific. The reader says that she is also a product of the mans destiny and what she told him was part of their destiny together.
So the question for the forum is asking about thoughts and ideas about how prediction often corrupts the predicted.
Say, you predict a horse is going to win a race, you then go to capitalise on the prediction and instead of winning the race the horse dies in the stalls. Could it be that the prediction was either wrong or was the horses destiny an attempt to defeat the predictor.....ha ha this gets soooo complicated.....
In physics we always rely on the ability to be able to predict experimental outcomes. When dealing with the material reality this seems quite capable but when dealing with life forms such as people etc it seems to fail nearly all the time.
The precognition paradox
I ask why is this so do you think?
Man goes to a tarot card reader. The reader stated clearly that the man will have a motor bike accident in 10 days time.
The man then stays away from motor bikes for the next 10 days and on the eleventh day gets run over by a truck.
He goes back to the tarot reader and says that the reading was false as he didn't have a motor bike accident and instead on the 11th day he got hit by a truck.
The tarot reader says that she predicted his future and he tried to avoid it and the destiny of having an accident just simply changed from that which included a motor bike to that which included a truck.
The man asks the reader then why didn't you just simply predict that I would have an accident and not be so specific. The reader says that she is also a product of the mans destiny and what she told him was part of their destiny together.
So the question for the forum is asking about thoughts and ideas about how prediction often corrupts the predicted.
Say, you predict a horse is going to win a race, you then go to capitalise on the prediction and instead of winning the race the horse dies in the stalls. Could it be that the prediction was either wrong or was the horses destiny an attempt to defeat the predictor.....ha ha this gets soooo complicated.....
In physics we always rely on the ability to be able to predict experimental outcomes. When dealing with the material reality this seems quite capable but when dealing with life forms such as people etc it seems to fail nearly all the time.
The precognition paradox
I ask why is this so do you think?