Szew, what about déjà vu? Thats basically remembering the future.

Are there any explanations for that phenomenon. I don't believe in any kind of supernatural crap, so I don't believe I can ever see the future consistently but sometimes..... I could have sworn I did exactly that in a dream a couple of weeks ago...

Are there any explanations for that phenomenon?*

Noone is playing along with sze nice game and it seems like a shame. I bet the answer is an interesting one.

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A memory is a group of proteins inside your head. Why cant a future event cause me to lay down a memory now? For the same reason a future event cannot cause any other physical change now. I dont know what that is, it may even be possible.

Or are you asking why we dont lay down memories for future events? We dont know which of the many things that could happen, will happen. If we could work out which of the possible futures was the one that was going to happen then we would lay down memories of the future.

In my future memory i remember Piggy quiting warlight.

Remembering is simply recalling events, as the furutre has not yet happened you can not recall these events.

However i think he means why can't we remember what we are supposed to do in the future. Everyone has done it: 'I am sure i had to do something now...' yada yada yada. If so the reason is we have no fixsated image to do with it. The past we can assoit senses which aid the memory alot. GThe furture has non of this, just the image.

In your dreams stinky myhand.

icvotria, would you care to elaborate? What you said is basically the same thing that was said before, that our perception is accompanied by growing entropy, yet it is the same as stating that we perceive the universe by cause and effect. We see that effect always happens after cause, but why is that? Are effect and cause immanent to the universe or are they only projections of our weak minds that cannot perceive otherwise?

there is no past, there is no future, there is only an everchanging now.
with the correct use of drugs you can get rid of those "past"-fantasies that plague your tiny human-head.

Who here believes in multiple universe theories because i don't i can't live life knowing that somewhere in another universe there is another me doing worse or better than me.And szew you can only remember what you have experienced so if time travel was possible you will be able to remember the future so the answer to your question is we can not remember the future because we cannot look into the future or timetravel.
Dejavu is not seeing into the future it had a reason i forgot(google it you lazy sods)

another you in another universe, but different ?

that s like me, i m also another you but different, and i pretty much live in my own personal fantasy-world/universe as well. :o

no worriez though, although i m clearly superior i m not doing that much better then you, so you don't need to be jaleous :P

I don't think you understood the theory.....

Yup, philosophy talk, fun fun!

We can provide a metaphysical account of time that allows for backwards causation: A static view of time, where there is no objective 'coming into being', where future and past events exist as present events exist, and the present is only a matter of one's position is consistent with future events causing past events. In this case, as the events that will happen after a certain point in time, t, which is picked out by our experience of it, exist on a par with t, it is at least possible that events later than t can affect events at t. The provision of such an account shows us that cause preceding effect is not metaphysically necessary; it is a contingent feature of the world that could have been otherwise, and backwards causation is at least metaphysically possible. That being said, there is still the question of whether or not cause preceding effect is logically necessary. On this point, I would say that it is. It is built in to our conceptual understanding of causation that it act in the direction of time's arrow. Consider a temporal snapshot of a ball I have thrown in the air at the top of its trajectory; It is a requirement of its being where it is that I have thrown in in the air, yet we do not say that its being in the air causes my throwing it up. It seems like a contradiction in fact to say that a later event could cause a prior one. So I would say that the fact that effect always happens after cause is a fact that is down to us, that is true because of facts about us rather than facts about the world. If we perceived the flow of time in the opposite direction, we would perceive the direction of causality as opposite as well. We can't distinguish the notion of cause from the notion of effect without relying on a notion of temporal direction.

Topic 2 (forgot to update):
Does free will exist? If yes/no then what does it mean?

Yes it does Szeweningen

We're cursed to be free

We're all slaves to each other.

No because if we were truly free i will be able to run across the street while shouting Grehig am the terminator without being arrested or but in an asylum.

Just man up and do it. You'll be fine, I promise.

You are still free to do so if you want. Regardless of the fact that it has consequences doesn't mean that theoretically you couldn't do it.

You're confusing being free with the act of it being a positive state or not.
From a hedonistic approach you would be correct but from an extensive approach you're wrong/

An argument against free will:-

Assuming that every event has a physical cause, and that every event occurs in accordance with the laws of nature, ever event, including actions and decisions made by rational agents, is causally necessitated by preceding events. That is, whatever we do, think, feel etc., it was predetermined by the events that preceded it. Facts about the past necessitate the truth values of questions about the future. If it was predetermined at whatever point in the past that I would write this, then it is not through any free agency on my part that I do. I could not have acted differently, and in this sense I have no free will.