** We cannot use the present to know the past - it would be at most a intelligent guess, but we can use the present to predict the future. **
Please put this quote to my name next time so i get famous ok? hahaha.
to show u some examples i can think of,
lets say in front of you is a car accident,
with this information and all the things you have, you could not have known what really really happened(assuming the driver and his passenger died soon after). It could be that they quarrelled on the car, then the driver maybe dulan and go crash the car against the curb that caused the car to overturned and killed both of them. It could also be that the driver sneezed and or fell asleep that the car accidentally went on the curb and the car overturned and killed them.
what you know now, the both of them bleeding profusely, and suppose this is outside sungei gedong road, and in 1 km you have sungei gedong medical centre, and probably 10km you have NUH, then lets say singapore no more money for helicopter, and your battery no batt. you can know with information that you are able to obtain that the two person are going to die.
to see this in terms of functions, A -> B.
Lets say current situation is A1, and it is defined by causal and deterministic laws that B1 will definitely happen. B1 will happen.
but if event B1 happened, you cant be sure that it was A1 which caused it.
This is something like your A maths where you have to this function is 1-1 and is not likewise with f inverse.
Gibson's First Law of Fate:
So with all the information available and extractable, we are only able to predict the future.
In equation form, A->B =/= B-> A
though the idea is simple, i will define this as my first law.(susceptible to changes)
by the way, there are no such thing as miracles or perfectly random events. (even dice tossing if you can control the angular velocity and height and time of flight, fluid properties(unless u throw it on vacuum) and surface properties of table (or hand if u catches it) and so many more factors, a certain result would most definitely occur).
