What if humans could predict the future?

Foreseeing the future deprives the future of possibility, and it is unfortunate. Foreknowledge means that I know more or less exactly the future, which means that you know the immutable outcome. Think about it, what does it mean?

It means that the upper limit of your happiness is limited, no matter what you do, you can only get the happiness that you have predicted, when you know that you will be admitted to Shenzhen University.

When you are happy that you can be lazy and can also take a book, it also means that you are diligent and cannot experience Tsinghua. And what if the result is bad? When you know that your efforts will fail, when you know that your feelings will eventually be broken, it destroys agency.

brings all possibilities and brings you despair. This deprivation of possibility is unfortunate.

It depends on each person's personality. Some people like to be on schedule, and some like surprises from the unknown. The unknown future is insecure and frightening for the former; But for the latter, life is like this, aimlessly doing what you want.

Basically, it's just these two types of people. Of course, some people's personalities will change at different stages. For example, when I was young, I didn't want to predict my future, and every day I wanted a new blank piece of paper, I had to draw it myself and see what it was.

But I've changed a little bit as I'm older, and I'm overwhelmed with too many things to do, and I want to have a plan to arrange the focus of my life in the future, and I don't want to be so tired.

It is unfortunate that foreseeing the future distorts the pursuit of diversity. The history of human civilization is the history of human beings from ignorance to cognitive pursuit, because of ignorance, we continue to explore, discover, and learn. When people predict the future, emotion, culture, science and technology, and even all possible human pursuits cannot escape the clutches of prediction, the exploration of the unknown will gradually die, and the prediction of the future will become the only pursuit, and human beings will live in a negative society where the future has been determined and only needs to be constantly predicted.

You can see the future, but you can't change it for a variety of reasons. For example, when your loved one is approaching, you know that they will die at some point and for some reason, but you can only watch that you can't do anything, this feeling is too painful.

If you can change the foreseen future, then we can reason that if you choose to choose good fortune and avoid evil after predicting the future, it means that you have chosen another path. In other words, while you change the known future, your future becomes unknown again, and this ability is useless.

If the future is as I think, then I will follow my plan and die, if the future is unexpected, then I will choose to do my best to escape, even if I have to return to the original trajectory in the end, then I will choose death before something I can't bear happens. So no matter how you look at it, my life is under my plan and I'll be happy.

Personally, I believe that the rise of science to the highest level is philosophical. If we look at the problem from the viewpoint of the development of Marxist philosophy, everything has its whole process from creation, development to extinction, then mankind and its civilization will inevitably die out one day. But there is no need to worry, because Marx also told us the principle of transformation between quantitative and qualitative change, so we can prolong this process, at least from now on, you and I will not see the great spectacle of human extinction.

In fact, with my personal knowledge level and language skills, I can't do this very well for the time being. I try to guess with some knowledge about the development of human society that I have learned in previous textbooks (please ignore the accuracy of the textbook knowledge). First, we must reach a consensus:

Human evolution. If you don't admit that man evolved from apes, don't read any more books so as not to waste time. The history of the development of human society that modern socialist society has instilled in me probably has the following main stages:

Primitive society, slave society, feudal society, capitalist society (some countries have not experienced it).

In a socialist society, scientists aside, in our ordinary people's cognition, humans evolved from apes, more precisely, from Homo sapiens, which is the result of the combined effect of the law of natural elimination and the evolution of human preferences. We have reached a tacit understanding and consensus with nature, and have given birth to modern intelligent human beings. Speaking of which, some of you may already understand my point.

Yes, humanity will not perish completely.

Therefore, I do not agree with the point of view given by scientists in terms of the main theme, from the primitive society with nothing to the modern age of science and technology, most of the human groups that are not suitable for survival have been gradually eliminated by nature or man-made, and this elimination is still continuing, but the means of elimination have changed from fierce to moderate, and the cycle of elimination has gradually lengthened. That is, the evolutionary process of natural elimination and human preferences never stops. In other words, humans are constantly evolving, and this evolution is gradually changing from the initial evolution of body size to the evolution of intelligence.