It might not be possible to see the future with the naked eye, but....?

Question

it is possible to 'approach' events that are to happen in the future? Have a fair idea of what is going to happen.

I mean, in a relatively simple environment, wouldn't this be possible?

Answer 1

What is the need to know the future? All the while we think of either our past or what the future holds, and miss the PRESENT moments of life. Lets all do our best and enjoy the moments of the present, then our future will sure be more better than anyone can predict.
Enjoy the simple joys of today. Donot loose them in the eagerness to know the future, b'cas when that future once becomes the present, we will loose that too thinking of the future again!

Answer 2

Certainly in a simple environment you should be able to but you never know what will happen out of the blue. By the law of averages, 9 out of 10 times you could tell what would happen but there would always be that one time that things wouldn't work out the way intended or thought.

Answer 3

There are things that are logical and things that are random. The logical stuff you can generally figure out - like if you put an oil man in the whitehouse, gas prices will go up and we will be in a war in the middle east. The things that are random are off the chart - like the car that runs a stopsign and hits your car.

Some people have trouble with the logical part.

You just do the best you can.

Answer 4

If it's clairvoyance you're talking about, then it is possible, since according to quantum physics, past, present and future are all happening at once. You are energy and your thoughts are energy and energy is polar, and polarities attract and repel. If you purify your magnet 'mind' with meditation for example, it becomes a better receptor to whatever direction you focus your thoughts to; be it the future (energy in potentia within THIS reality) or another person's mind (telepathy).

Answer 5

Seeing into the future is just remembering what happened to similar events in the past.

Answer 6

Most things occur in patterns, so predicting the next thing in a pattern is easy. Many patterns acting together becomes harder to predict. Like weather we slowly see more and more of the patterns so we get better and better at predicting. We will however never get to the point where we can totally predict the weather.

Answer 7

we only know whats going to happen by what has happened in the past, so if i walk into a shop and ask for a pack of smokes, i will generally get a pack of smokes, and i can probably tell what the conversation will be with the regular guy in the shop....but i wouldn't be able to foresee it being robbed and me being shot (potentially)..see?

Answer 8

Of course, it is possible. For example, we can "see" the future and know that some elections will be won by Democrats and some by Republicans. That there will be wars. That there will be disasters. ETC.

Answer 9

Actually, this is what science is all about. We study the patterns of behavior in various types of phenomena so that we can predict what those phenomena will do in certain situations.

Technology is a looking into the future, if you will. By understanding the patterns of how things like electrical currents, for example, work, we can predict what will happen when you put certain phenomena together in certain ways. There was no way to know, before it was invented, that radio would someday exist, except by understanding patterns of phenomena that made it apparent that if you put certain phenomena together in such a way it would create a radio. In otherwords, we didn't simply know a radio would exist by looking into the past, because there were no radios in the past. Rather, we (Tesla) understood the patterns of physics and electromagnetism in such a way that he could PREDICT the radio's existence. He knew the future as it were.

The more simple the environment, the easier it is to do this. If I know and understand certain phenomenal patterns, I can predict certain results. For example, if I know that rats seek food when they are hungry, and that the rat in my cage hasn't eaten in a day, and that in 5 minutes my friend will place a chunk of cheese into the rats cage, I can predict the future! Namely, I know with a great deal of certainty that that rat will run up to the cheese and start eating it!

So that is obviously a rediculously simple example, but it is to make a point. By understanding how things work, patterns of phenomena, we can predict certain outcomes within certain environments. This includes environments involving human beings, who are obviously much more complex than simple rats, but still follow patterns of behavior nonetheless. We obviously do this all the time, we predict when we go to church we will hear about God, not about how to build your own computer. But the social sciences have actually given us far more complex information for understanding human behavior, patterns of behavior, and thus predicting certain future results in certain contexts.

The problem with predicting the future lies in not having enough information about the patterns of phenomena and not having the cerebral capacity to put all those patterns together. Tesla would never have invented the radio had he lived in the 1200's, because there wasn't enough information or understood patterns of phenomena available at that time for him to put together. But even when that information was available, in the late 1800s, it required an absolute genius of terrifying intellectual aptitude to put all that information together in order to create the machine.

A radio is relatively simple compared to many of the things we find in this world, particularly understanding human behavior. Nevermind that we've only really scratched the surface at understanding the phenomena behind human behavior, the information is so vast and complex, the reasons so numerous, that it would be very difficult to predict the exact direction of world events, for example. Besides the fact that you would have to include a vast array of phenomena not directly tied to, but influencing (e.g., nature disasters), human behavior . . . put simply, no single human being has the cerebral capacity to put all the information of the world together, even if we had that information!

Many would argue that we human beings create superstitions to fill the gaps in what we do not understand. So in the past, certain gods were proposed in order to explain rain. Today, it could be argued, ideas like free will help us to fill the gaps in our understanding of human behavior. But theoretically, from a deterministic scientific point of view, if you had ALL of the information, and the means to putting all that information together, one could predict the future. But we don't even know whether the world works strictly deterministically. Quantum physics certainly seems to draw that assumption into question. In short, we simply do not have enough information to date to even know if complete futuristic prediction is even theoretically possible.

But we do know that within confined environments, future prediction -- not with absolute certainty, but with relatively high certainty -- is possible. And indeed, if it were not I think we all would be relatively cripled to go about our daily lives, where we assume certain patterns of the past will continue into the future, as well as predict new patterns emerging based on old ones and understandings of how things work (e.g., if the boss caught you sleeping with his wife you could predict that in the future you would be fired).

Anyway, hope I addressed you question.

Answer 10

History keeps repeating itself incessantly but we are too stupid as a race to see it. So yes we can see the future if we really want to.