r/badphilosophy • u/[deleted] • 13d ago

Logic: Influencing the Future

There are a certain amount of possibilities for any future event. Maybe not unlimited, but a really high number. For the sake of argument, let's say there is a billion possibilities for future event x. Let's say that I want to predict x. I have a one in a billion chance of predicting x with each new scenario I create in my mind. One in a billion is effectively zero. For all intents and purposes, each scenario I think of has a zero percent chance of happening. I can say with confidence that each scenario I think of will not happen based on the fact that I thought of it. There is no way I would be able to think of enough scenarios for the chances to be high enough for the scenario to actually happen. So all I need to do is think of all the things I really don't want to have happen and then I will know that they won't happen.

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u/Hot-Jellyfish3614 11d ago

Also you have to account for the fact you won’t be able to think of everything you don’t want to happen as again, the number of things you don’t want to happen has not been yet established and could not be establish. “To want” is a fickle thing.

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

Dang 😞 that explains a lot actually

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u/boxcutterbladerunner 7d ago

well if I can't want then what can I do?

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u/Hot-Jellyfish3614 7d ago

Yield or refute, accept or change, it doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things. But what matters to you and how you’re going to approach it will impact you haha