Things are not the same forward in time as backward in time, even if it’s the same thing. DNA is a receipt, not a recipe. A thought can reflect, and you can think about the future, but you cannot predict it.
Do you have a scary thought? Point to it with your finger. Not all thoughts are in the same place in your head.
You try to predict the future. You flip a fair coin.
What’s the chance that it lands on heads?
It’s not 50/50. We don’t actually know what will happen in the future. The coin could land on its side. A gust of wind could blow it away. A meteor could hit the Earth one second from now.
So the chance isn’t really 50/50 — it’s 50/50 most of the time, but only under certain assumptions. It’s a probability within a probability.
It’s only 50/50 if you deliberately narrow it down to two outcomes, which is a fundamental flaw in science in general. Just because you reduce something to two options, doesn’t mean it actually has only two options. That’s imaginary.
Smarter would be to let things happen first, and then observe them as they unfold — and afterwards. That’s not the same as predicting the future. Because on a fundamental level, you can’t predict the future.
Even if you knew the position of every single atom in the universe and how it moves, there would still be parts of reality beyond your reach. There is always undiscovered information, which is precisely why the future is unknowable. It’s nature’s way of protecting itself — and that’s beautiful.
What about AI?
A computer only understands one narrow layer of one diagonal of the billions of ways to look at something. Even quantum computers are still just one very superficial way of seeing reality, focused almost entirely on electronic input.
Simply put: a computer has no intuition. It cannot smell. It has no feel for a situation.
And those things — the invisible, unmeasurable things — are essential for truly understanding reality.
I imagine it like this:
That you’re a tiny little ball and I’m looking at you from very close by.
And then I think — are you made of energy, or is it the energy between us?
About quantum particles
DNA werkt alleen achteruit in de tijd, niet vooruit.
Soms wordt DNA vergeleken met een receptenboekje, met op elke regel een gen. Dat klopt niet: het is een bonnetje van de natuur dat jij alleen via je ouders hebt gekregen.
DNA werkt, net als veel andere dingen, alleen achteruit in de tijd. En achteruit in de tijd werkt het niet hetzelfde als vooruit in de tijd.
Het is een beetje zoals kansberekening: ook die werkt alleen achteruit in de tijd. Achteraf gezien is de kans op een eerlijke munt 50/50. Maar vooruit in de tijd niet: de munt kan op zijn kant vallen, er kan een meteoor inslaan. Dat is bij DNA ook zo. Je krijgt een bonnetje mee van je ouders, maar je hebt zelf nog alle mogelijkheden om er iets anders van te maken. De richting waarin je kijkt, maakt het dus anders.
Een ander voorbeeld zijn gedachten. Als je gedachten gebruikt om achteruit te kijken naar wat al is gebeurd, werken ze anders dan wanneer je vooruit kijkt. Achteruit is het belangrijk om secuur en rustig te bekijken wat je van iets vindt en vond; zo kun je dingen afsluiten. Maar vooruit in de tijd moet je oppassen dat je je niet laat beperken, omdat je alleen dingen kunt bedenken die je al kent. Je weet niet welke onverwachte dingen er nog kunnen gebeuren.
DNA only works backward in time, not forward.
Sometimes DNA is compared to a recipe book, with a gene on every line. That’s not accurate: it’s a little slip from nature that you received only through your parents.
DNA, like many other things, only works backward in time. And backward in time, it doesn’t work the same way as forward in time.
It’s a bit like probability: that also only works backward in time. In hindsight, the chance of a fair coin landing heads is 50/50. But forward in time, that’s not the case: the coin could land on its edge, a meteor could strike. The same applies to DNA. You receive a slip from your parents, but you still have all the possibilities to make something different of it. The direction you look in changes how it works.
Another example is thoughts. If you use your thoughts to look backward at what has already happened, they work differently than when you look forward. Looking backward, it’s important to carefully and calmly examine what you think and thought about something; this allows you to close chapters. But forward in time, you have to be careful not to limit yourself, because you can only imagine things you already know. You don’t know what unexpected events might still occur.
Ziekte bestaat niet: alles werkt zoals het zou moeten werken.
Disease does not exist: everything works as it is supposed to.
Why nature gives a little slip
Because we cannot see DNA directly. Otherwise, it would seem as if nature has an influence on our DNA, which is not the case.