We humans are natural-born engineers. As such, we model after machines not only isolated, naturally occurring systems, but also the basic laws of physics, sharing with machines a local-evolution-of-state `mechanism' (aka Newtonian Schema). It therefore came as a surprise when Bell showed that any ontology behind quantum phenomena cannot be mechanistic. However, already classical electrodynamics---so it turns out after more than a century of attempts to cure its pathologies---appears not to be mechanistic either, making it a possible (indeed plausible, as recently shown by the author) such ontology. It is therefore possible that machines, which we are so good at making, are the exception, and that quantum phenomena barely scratches the surface of a non mechanistic reality. In particular, we argue in this essay, while some machines may predict the future via their clever design, non-machines could `remember' it, including its unpredictable aspects.
Yehonatan Knoll