I should really stop thinking

[dontcareaboutmyid]

RE: I should really stop thinking

PREPARE TO BE ASTONISHED!!!

For at this very moment I will predict the future.

I'm going to type some stuff explaining my predictionas to as sonon as I'm done typing this post I'm going to press the submit button.

edit: note the pressing of the submit button. I have succesfully predicted the future.

We can predict the future, its just that it's always done in a retarded way.

For example, I could say that after I'm done with this at school I'll be heading over to a hobby shop until three o clock which then I wil head to computer cafe to play bf2 for 7 hours, but how that happens is a complete mystery

[Tps222]

RE: I should really stop thinking

Well, he is referring to the unknown future, not the personally known.

[MonkeyFoo]

RE: I should really stop thinking

Indeed, you weren't predicting the future, but rather creating the future of an unnaturally occurring event.

Let's now imagine that there is a law of life, the universe and everything. Make a computer to calculate what will happen to the universe in the future, and it can't have the processing power to determine what even the computer itself will be able to do.

But then, if we imagine that there is an infinitely powerful computer that can calculate everything, including itself, all at once, and tell the future. It would have to be able to account for human thought. It would have to be able to account for the thoughts of the person that the computer gives the answer to. What this person does, at the very least what the chemicals and nerves do, what the light coming from the very screen does, depends on the reaction to what he sees on the screen of the computer. This creates an infinite paradox, impossible to calculate to an end. Thus, all you'd get from trying to calculate the future of the universe is an error. Here's where the brain pain comes: while the paradox is infinite, so is the computing power of the computer. It can't come up with an error, because in the instant it makes the calculations, it has reached the answer that cannot be reached. That's infinity for you...