Yes. It’s an inferred fuzzy correlation based on past experience, the entanglement between the future and present is not necessarily very strong. More capable agents are able to see across wider domains, further, and more reliably, than weaker agents.
The thing that’s happening is not a direct window to the future opening, but cognitive work letting you map the causal structure of the future and create an approximation of their patterns in the present. You’re mapping the future so you can act differently depending on what’s there, which does let the logical shape of the future affect the present, but only to a degree compatible with your ability to predict the future.
Yes. It’s an inferred fuzzy correlation based on past experience, the entanglement between the future and present is not necessarily very strong. More capable agents are able to see across wider domains, further, and more reliably, than weaker agents.
The thing that’s happening is not a direct window to the future opening, but cognitive work letting you map the causal structure of the future and create an approximation of their patterns in the present. You’re mapping the future so you can act differently depending on what’s there, which does let the logical shape of the future affect the present, but only to a degree compatible with your ability to predict the future.