My studies in physics have taught me one thing about predictability and the future: One can usually predict outcomes of certain events to a certain degree and within the margin of an error. Even the most simplest seeming problems however will always have an error, because it is impossible to take into account all the factors that are affecting a system. This is due to the fact that no system is truly separated from the rest of the world, and the rest of the world is so big that we can't truly simulate it. Considering only classical mechanics one could extrapolate and say that if one had the proper information about the states of all things one could calculate the outcome of any event exactly.

However we also have quantum effects which rely entirely on probability - true chance. There is no way to predict the outcome of the double slit experiment if one is detecting the particle passing through the slits, i.e. there is no way to tell which slit the particle will be detected at. At least according to what I understand of quantum physics that is.

Now you ask, do I believe if the future can be known - my answer is no, I do not. We can conjecture and draw out trajectories, we can say what is likely and what is unlikely. But never exactly what WILL be.

But this is not what freedom is to me.

Freedom to me is the ability to affect my subjective experience, my experiential reality, my perception. And furthermore it is the ability to grasp all possibilities that present themselves, but also to see them first. And finally it is the ability to understand what and who I am from the inside experience, understand all the internal motions and energy-flows and to act out of this state of wholeness and clarity, with no hidden forces limiting my movements.

much love

Enoon