Omniscience and Alternate Timelines

[ArachDusa]

As per wiki criteria, to qualify as having true omniscience, one must have absolute infallible knowledge of everything, including the future. That much is obvious. But what if there is more than one future? Suppose there are one or more omniscient beings in a verse where multiple alternate futures/timelines exist and are all equally real, and as a result, an omniscient being cannot tell you with absolute certainty what the outcome of an event is - Not because they don't know, but because the correct and true answer is that every outcome of that event will be the actual one. Would that qualify as true omniscience?
To further complicate things, let's suppose that rather than each timeline existing separately, the timeline splits and branches whenever an event with multiple outcomes occur, meaning that the two or more timelines for the two or more outcomes do not yet exist and both timelines will be the continuation of "our timeline", meaning even an omniscient being cannot tell you in advance what outcome "you" will experience due to the "you" in both timelines being the continuation of the current "you"? Would these scenarios still allow for a character to count as having true omniscience? And if not, how would an omniscient character function in such a setting?

 

[AzuRizzz]

To be omniscient is to know everything that will happen and might happen

Meaning their omniscience must also cover the other branching timelines and is possessing knowledge of the said branches.

Otherwise it's just nigh omniscience

Unless the other timelines are seperate ones unrelated to the omniscient being's then their omniscience would be just on a universal+ scale


Covering the other seperate timelines would be omniscience on a further range (multiversal)

 

[ArachDusa]

That is not what I'm asking.
If the omniscient being does know about every alternate timeline, and as a consequence of that every possible future is equally real to them, meaning they can't tell you which future will happen because from their perspective every future will happen, does that count as true omniscience or not?

 

[AzuRizzz]

That is not what I'm asking.
If the omniscient being does know about every alternate timeline, and as a consequence of that every possible future is equally real to them, meaning they can't tell you which future will happen because from their perspective every future will happen, does that count as true omniscience or not?

If they know every future then they would also know which future will happen in the timeline.

There's no reason why they can't because as you said, all branches are equally real and will happen and that omniscient being knows all of it.

It's like the watcher from MCU but more potent.

They would know of the future that will happen and can tell someone of it, but would lead to diverge to a new branch of future which looks like there's no absolute future but they know that it would happen as well if told.

Now, take it on a higher perspective, to the eyes of that omniscient being, each branch is like a book they've already finished at the same time from beginning to end and therefore it is true omniscience.

Whether the branch diverge into a new one or not, what matters is that they know all branch from the smallest details to everything and it is true omniscience.

 

[DonkeySlayer06]

I think this could be Nigh-Omniscience. Any Omniscience character know everything (with Alternate Timelines). If any character knowing only timeline and others. He has Nigh Omniscience

 

[LuffyRuffy46307]

Unless the other timelines are seperate ones unrelated to the omniscient being's then their omniscience would be just on a universal+ scale

This is the same thing with Zuno (Dragon Ball Super)

 

[ArachDusa]

Do none of you understand the question I'm asking? I'm talking here about a character who does know everything about every alternate timeline.