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You can imagine where your world line is in that universe, and it's quite a solid line, quite well localized. It’s shows where you are right now, and where you were in the past. But the line beyond now, in the future, you can imagine as a type of branching structure, a probabilistic branching tree. The information we’d get from the future comes from all those branches. One way to think of this then is as though your world line were like a stream, or a river. Sometimes the whole river is moving lazily along the same path, following a strong current. Other times you get into places with lots of churn, where it becomes extremely complicated and chaotic and there are lots of different directions you might end up going.
What presentiment provides to you are the up-coming probabilities. So if you're in a large, slow-moving stream [an unchaotic state], the presentiments of the future will tend to be high probability events that might seem to you like fate or destiny. But if you're going through a period of chaos, like the rapids in a stream, you have thousands of possibilities that could arise in the next moment. In that case the noise in the presentiment goes way, way up, because of all those possibilities. So this doesn't require multiple universes to explain why presentiment is not completely predictable.
WTB – Right. Which is why we can be very good at presentiment in three second increments, but being a Jean Dixon and trying to predict the future is a whole other matter, because there are so many potentials and probabilities at work.
Radin – Yeah. And some of it is related to the branching structure I just mentioned. Just think in terms of one second from now, the world is very likely to be the way it is now. Ten seconds and it's going to be quite different. Three thousand seconds, and it's going to be extremely different. So the branching structure makes future predictions much, much more difficult.
END PART I
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