The science / philosophical arguments for clairvoyance are not completely ludicrous... when you consider the possibility that there may not be such a thing as the supernatural (eg. a human soul). If all things real are bound by the laws of physics / chemistry, then biological "life" is just a chemical process of interacting molecules in certain patterns. Sentience would be an illusion, because the human brain would simply be a platform for scientific laws to be played out. No free will. Under such circumstances it would be conceivable (but not practical) that the future could be accurately predicted because everything in the future would be determined by fixed patterns / laws.
Of course, as I indicated above, I don't believe in this stuff... While I have no proof (I'm an agnostic too), I do believe in free will, making clairvoyance impossible.
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This could be done by deciding your destiny before your existence here on Earth.
:? I don't understand this... if you're not deciding things here on Earth, then how can it be free will (and where else would you get a chance to make all the decisions for a lifetime... especially considering the uncertainty of the to-be-determined decisions of others...)? I guess you could be trying to say that we're puppets, but IMO that wouldn't be free will either.
Oh, and do you think Wyvante realized that this is the Q&A thread, and not Chatty Kathy's? :P (i.e. where's the question!).
The science / philosophical arguments for clairvoyance are not completely ludicrous... when you consider the possibility that there may not be such a thing as the supernatural (eg. a human soul). If all things real are bound by the laws of physics / chemistry, then biological "life" is just a chemical process of interacting molecules in certain patterns. Sentience would be an illusion, because the human brain would simply be a platform for scientific laws to be played out. No free will. Under such circumstances it would be conceivable (but not practical) that the future could be accurately predicted because everything in the future would be determined by fixed patterns / laws.
Of course, as I indicated above, I don't believe in this stuff... While I have no proof (I'm an agnostic too), I do believe in free will, making clairvoyance impossible.
:? I don't understand this... if you're not deciding things here on Earth, then how can it be free will (and where else would you get a chance to make all the decisions for a lifetime... especially considering the uncertainty of the to-be-determined decisions of others...)? I guess you could be trying to say that we're puppets, but IMO that wouldn't be free will either.
Oh, and do you think Wyvante realized that this is the Q&A thread, and not Chatty Kathy's? :P (i.e. where's the question!).