What a fool believes . . . he sees

Some may recognise the title above. It’s borrowed from the lyrics of a song by the Doobie Brothers – actually one of their best and worth another listen anyway.

The message for us is relevant to the previous article. The world is shaped, as we observe it and believe it to be. This principle has a huge impact on what happens, yet we’re simply unaware of it day to day.

The last article finished up by proposing that either we can head into the future from where we are now, the last step dictating the next as we normally do, or we can begin at where we wish to be and determine the intervening steps back to our last.

This is definitely not what we normally do and therefore at first would seem almost impossible. But modern physics tells us that it’s not preposterous and there genuinely are tools and techniques that we can employ.

The objective is to initiate a process of what we might, in another context, call ‘inevitability’. How close we attain ‘inevitability’ – of what we desire – is a function of several factors. These include confidence of intent, definition and effectiveness of the means, the system and actions we employ – all of which are continuously shaped by the feedback from our environment.

These concepts are a synergy of physics and the human psyche. From those described above, the focus of the next piece will be on ‘the definition and effectiveness of the means’.

As a taster to where this is taking you, consider the following. It’s accepted that the spatial dimensions that we perceive are joined by one that we can’t, that of time, giving us the principle of space-time.

Physics tells us that, not only is the passage of time variable, but that, in theory we can be aware of both past and future space-time, just as we can be aware of these vantage points in space alone. In three dimensional space we can predict where a point will be, by providing its coordinates. In space-time, we predict events rather than points – and coordinates provide us with ‘when’ as well as ‘where’. More soon . . .