A paradoxical idea combining Quantum Bayesian Networks with Precognition

First written 4 days ago for Dr. Frank Zickert

 An interesting idea occurred to me and I thought I should share it with you.

It begins with me reading Stephen King's The Institute in which there are these kids who have superpowers - Telepathy, Telekinesis and Precognition. That is, mind-to-mind reading, control of objects at a distance, and telling the future perhaps months or even years in advance.

(Interestingly, Stephen King also introduced to me the idea that writing-reading is a mind-to-mind telepathic process in his book On Writing. Only that it takes months or years for the information to cross space-time from one mind to another, instead of seconds as real telepathy should work.

This guy is really good I tell you).

What stuck with me was precognition and  the way it seems to be possible to a limited extent based on specific contexts e.g. stock-price "forecasting" with mathematical tools of inference.

I even made a blog about it at www.intelagent.wordpress.com.

I made a few blogs about quantum computing on there but this is where we shall do that now. 

So last week I read John Gribbins's In Search of Schrodinger's Cat and in it I was introduced to the revelation that quantum mechanics makes determinism of the future from the past nearly impossible because of the world's stochastic nature. Ok, fair point. Good bye precognition.

Then I got a startling revelation yesterday. Good bye precognition?

How about Quantum Bayesian Networks ?!!

And so here we are. With me writing you this blog letter 

From here I am going to dive a little into quantum bayesian networks with qiskit (I'll definitely start with your blog. Have a reason to read it again now. Slowly and carefully) to try and unravel how something that makes the future random and unpredictable can turn round and help us see even more of it (with specific context still, but with increased limited ability).

Wonder what you think about all this?

P.S. I finished your free sample of Hands on Quantum Machine Learning with Python. It  was fun. Especially learnt that correlation methods can add "information value" (another thing I learnt) to a data set. 

Thanks for reading

Bye.