aporia wrote:If using probability I can predict the future, does that make me closed-eye or open-eye?
I'm thinking partly of Asimov's Psychohistory (which is I understand a work of fiction ...) and partly of a superstition quiz in today's Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/ ... erstitions) where the first question was
"It is probably true that certain people can predict the future quite accurately."
Now I can predict the future using probability (ish) and I can certainly predict the future when the worlds of chocolate and my children collide. But I couldn't predict random events.
So, is it true that I can predict the future? And if I can, is that closed-eye or open-eye?
I think I need to lie down now doctor, but I'm not going to reveal what my score was.
Microscopes see the small, telescopes see the far away, and probability sees the future - but only statistically.
