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Is the Future set in Stone?

The short answer to this question is “no.” At any given moment in time, future exists as multiple possibilities — none of which is set in stone — until one of these possibilities becomes real. At that point, all possibilities other than… Read More

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Posted on March 30, 2010 by Ahmed Afzaal

Poetry/Philosophy

Bergson, Destiny, Foreknowledge, Iqbal, Omnipotence, Omniscience, Taqdir, The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam, Time, Time Travel, Whitehead

An Ocean without Shore

In a previous post (“Excuse me, are you Homo duplex?”) I made an attempt to understand what Iqbal means when he distinguishes between the “appreciative self” and the “efficient self.” I am now going to make a second… Read More

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Posted on August 11, 2008 by Ahmed Afzaal

Poetry/Philosophy

Appreciative Self, Bergson, Determinism, Edwin Abbot, Efficient Self, Einstein, Flatland, Fourth Dimension, Free Will, Freedom, Iqbal, Predestination, Pure Duration, Serial Time, Time

Is the Future set in Stone?

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