I read "all-knowing" as meaning an all that includes the future. But I agree with you that it's a distinction without a difference, because, as you say, knowing "everything" about the present gives you data about what forces are interacting with each other and precisely how, and what the outcomes of such interactions will be according to the laws of psychology, physics, microbiology, chemistry, mathematics, etc., which you also know. Your knowledge base would include everything that was a determinant for the next phase. You'd do well in the stock market if you were omniscient. Except for, of course, with penny stocks.
I don't know what the initial value problem of differential equations and QM is. |
