"The other thing historians are forbidden to do is talk about the future because history and the historians discipline is based on facts. And the problem of the future is that it doesn't have any facts yet." Stewart Brand
Starting with the premise that things are more accurately probabilistic than causal this becomes a much more interesting statement. There are no facts about the past, there were probabilities about the past (and outcomes, but that's probably less relevant). Likewise, there are probabilities about the future (and there are outcomes here, too). There's more symmetry here than expected.
Starting with the premise that things are more accurately probabilistic than causal this becomes a much more interesting statement. There are no facts about the past, there were probabilities about the past (and outcomes, but that's probably less relevant). Likewise, there are probabilities about the future (and there are outcomes here, too). There's more symmetry here than expected.