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how do you anons think possibilities work?
is it all pre destined? are there an infinite amount of possibilities that are available at any given moment, but only one of the infinite ever comes to fruition in any given action? could these infinite possibilities be manifested somehow? are they kept somewhere, like some interdimensional vault? what if someone was able to SEE all the possibilities, they technically exist, they are all there, its just that we can only see one through any given action. but what happens to past possibilities? do they just stop existing?
Any books on this?

>> No.17072951

>>17072908
In between Being and Non-being there exists a process, this process is becoming.

Read some Buddhism to learn about Samsara, and for an autistic breakdown that overcomplicates shit read Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit.

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The name for this area of philosophy i called modality. It was a major focus of analytic philosophy for long time and still is.
Try Kripke's Naming and Necessity, Lewis' On the Plurality of Worlds, and Plantinga's Nature of Necessity.

>> No.17073184

>>17072908
Actually, nothing’s possible.

>> No.17073646

>>17072908
Well it’s not intuitive, but by and large it either happens or it doesn’t, and with quantum mechanics we are always transported into the reality where it does. 50/50.

>> No.17073834

Bump

>> No.17074008

Time is only what a clock measures. There is only the now. Your question is nonsensical.

>> No.17074114

>>17072908
Possibillities are virtual. That means they are already real before they "manifest" themselves into something substantial, or "actualize" as Deleuze would put it. The possibillity of Moby Dick being a great novel that could alter your live is already pushing you to read it, it's already altering the course of your live, right now, before you commited yourself and bought it. Furthermore, virtualities not only affect the world, but also eachother. A knife gains the abbility to threaten, due to it's abbility to kill, which in turn is predicated on it's sharpness.
Now, we can't therefore think possibility as something that rests in some otherworldy realm, awaiting actualization, but rather as an active field all objects occupy, the part of them which is already leaving the present in favor of the future.
So in truth, objects which are in reality processes themselves, are always already changing, as one moment flows into another seamlessly, while virtualities tugg and pull eachother in the free game of chance.