Is our future planned out?

Question

Psychics can sometimes predict the future... And most people have dreams that end up coming true and happening exactly how they dreamt it... How do this happen? It can't always be a coincidence... or maybe it is. Opinions?

Answer 1

Our future is what we are barring the actions of nature and the actions of those far more powerful than we are. When we are faced with choices, we choose because of what we are and how we came to be. Only the forces of nature and the actions of those more powerful than you can alter the course of you life..

Answer 2

I think there is a general plan, but free will can change the outcome.

there is a quote I heard once that said "God has a plan for your life and you have a plan and neither one of you knows how it will turn out"

Answer 3

Psychics can't predict the future better than any other person, and I really doubt 'most' people have dreams that come true. Probability can explain these the 'hits and misses' without appealing to any pseudoscience

And to John A, right below me, if God is supposed to be all-knowing, then how can he not know whose plan will work out?

Answer 4

"Our decisions are predetermined unconsciously a long time before our consciousness kicks in," says John-Dylan Haynes, a neuroscientist at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin, who led the study. It definitely throws our concept of free will into doubt, he adds.

This is by no means the first time scientists have cast doubt on conscious free will. In the early 1980s, the late neuroscientist Benjamin Libet uncovered a spark of brain activity three tenths of a second before subjects opted to lift a finger. The activity flickered in a region of the brain involved in planning body movement.

But this region might perform only the final mental calculations to move, not the initial decision to lift a finger, Haynes says."

The idea of determinism is that all events are the results of previous causes. If we heated a bar of iron, and the bar expanded, we would say that the heat was the cause of expansion.

The idea of a physically determined universe is associated with Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727). This is sometimes called the billiard ball view of nature: A billiard ball will only move when acted on by another force such as another billiard ball hitting it. If we could measure the exact velocity and angle of the first billiard ball, we could predict the movement of the second.

The philosophical problem comes with human beings. If we were to accept the empirical view that human beings are organized systems of matter and that our minds are formed as a result of experiences then we may want to explain human behavior in terms of cause and effect.

If we knew enough about the biological make up of an individual, his early childhood experiences and the social and historical circumstances he was born into, then perhaps we could predict all of his actions. From this point of view the idea of free will (the ability to choose) is simply the result of or ignorance of all of the causal factors.

Determinisms are actually backed up with a lot of evidence. However, uncountable people do not believe because it just seems illogical to them. Free will(choice) is merely an illusion that is part of determinism.  

Answer 5

One question that you need to ask is what is the success rate of so-called psychics who predict the future. If our future is determined, how would this fact affect our concepts revolving around free will? I believe that the future is not yet. However, there is a sense in which it is partly opened and partly closed.

Answer 6

i think we are thinking it or our subconscious is so they see that outcome

but if we change our mind, a completely new one is for-casted.

i believe no future is planned out.

but if you believe it, then it will be

if you dont, your free