(The movie is Arrival, which I mentioned before)
I’ve been following the writing and videos of physicist Vahid Houston Ranjbar for a while (isn’t that a wonderfully international name? Persian, American, Indian) but somehow failed to notice this post from 2017.
… On first blush it would seem a ridiculous violation of … physics to “remember the future”. But when I think about it more, I must confess it takes a bit more thought to understand why we don’t remember the future in the way we can remember the past. If we suspend for a while what we ‘think’ we know about causality, it is not immediately obvious why …
He also has a series of videos on youtube on the theme of the Platonic Ideal way of viewing the world vs the Materialist view. And this video which he did is an introduction to a Bahá’í view of the changes to our world that started mid-19th century.