Is the future Knowable?

Answer 1

It mostly depends upon your system of beliefs, the culture you have been raised in.

My guess is - no. There is no defined future which we blindly follow.

We make our own destiny each second.

Answer 2

I wouldn't say that the future (and perhaps anything else) is knowable. I would say that the future is predictable (perhaps by many different means) and that your own actions can influence the future.
There are tests of precognition (knowing the future) such as attempting to accurately predict the next card that will be randomly chosen by a computer. However, there is no way to eliminate the possibility that you may have influenced that choice with your intentions and expectations.
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Answer 3

In a rational sense, you can know the future
in part by looking at past patterns. That way,
you can predict general patterns likely to recur
in the future if certain variables stay constant.

Other than that, some mediums state that they
can see the future. And, some people have dreams
that predict the future. I think they see across
the dimensions of time and space somehow.

Lastly, I agree that the Bible, and possibly
other religious documents, contain prophesies
that also point to what will happen in the future.

Answer 4

The future lay in possibility. Each future experience, every possible outcome co-exist together in a field of possibility. Predicting the future always happens within the context of our choices. However, it lay in flux, because we are constantly making different decisions.
You can know the future, if you carefully and consciously make specific choices, that will produce the outcome you wish to desire.
Let's say you wish to be a doctor. That is the future you wish to experience. Then you will make choices, like going to college, taking the required classes, going to medical school and getting a degree. All of the experiences which will bring you to the future you wish to experience. However, any change you make will alter the possible future you experience.
This happens at the personal/individual level, and at the collective level also.

Answer 5

In the sense that you could travel say 100 years into the future using the effects of time dilation on your speed, yes.
If you are talking about given a known assembly of particles in a given configuration and predicting some future state, no.
Quantum mechanics and the HU principle militate against that- all you get are probabilities.
No one has reliably or consistently determined prescience beyond normal statistical levels of confidence for coincidence.
One exception! I predict that you will get the usual insane ramblings from parapyschotics and bible bashers though!

Answer 6

Hang I'll look into the future and see.
Hmm. I see a tall dark dark stranger who'll bring you disaster.
No sorry that was a crossed wire. So no the future is not knowable.

Answer 7

is the future knowable,yes.....changeable....yes. after you gain the knowledge of the future, you can choose a different path to change the future. it's called FREE WILL. and it's the only thing anyone will always have.

Answer 8

What is knowable (can be known before it occurs) is not future as it becomes present to us.

Answer 9

Well maybe to a certain extent, but we can never really know what all will come. Some is just common sense, but then it can turn round and bite ya in the butt!

Answer 10

Well we can try and predict it, but you can never KNOW for sure what's going to happen!

Weather reporting tries to predict the future. Doctors try to predict the future (by giving certain medicines, they try and alter this future). All forms of gambling do...