Can people predict the future?
No one can predict the exact future. But everybody can predict
the future to some extent, because the brain is a natural estimator.
The brain holds a model of the present existing world.
The brain estimates the future model state by 2 major methods:
Linear estimation
This method claims that every change that we grasp, will keep
changing in the same rate. Here are several examples:
- When share price in the stoke market went up 1$ today,
we will predict that tomorrow it will go up 1$ again.
- When we see a car that pass by at speed of 30MPH, we can
predict that it will keep moving at the same speed.
- When we see a car that accelerates at 1MPH/sec, we can
predict that it will keep on accelerating at the same rate.
Cyclic estimation
This method estimates cyclic events
for future predictions.
For example:
- The sun will shine tomorrow morning, since it happened in
the past billion years.
- I will not go to work at Saturday.
- It will be warm at August.
All this is usually true for the short term, but for the long term we can be sure that these predictions
might fail.
Is mind reading
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