Lost was fantastic! I am always amazed by the depth of the show. The episode last night centered around the character of Desmond Hume, who not so coincidentally shares the last name of David Hume, an 18th century Scottish naturalist philosopher. Hume the philosopher is probably best known for posing the problem of induction. Induction is a process of reasoning by which we predict future expectations based on past experiences, (i.e. the sun will rise in the east tomorrow). The problem lies in the fact that the only way we can justify such reasoning is by basing our argument on the success of induction in the past, which is circular reasoning.
Hume the character seems to have been caught in some "time warp" and ends up with the ability to predict the future based on what he has seen in the past. A coincidence? My past experience tells me such a coincidence is not very likely, but I have no justification to say so.
