Talk:Possibility Reconstruction/@comment-35287148-20180412144004

Looking at the comments I think people misunderstand how this power works and what it does (Not that i can blame them as i had trouble with it at first as well). I think what people are getting wrong here is treating probability and possibility as if they are exactly the same, they are not.

Probability is the chance of something happening in this world, ranging from 100% where it will surely happen, to 0% where it won't happen(i.e impossible).

Possibiliy is saying if a outcome/event can or cannot happen in the world.

Something is only possible if it has a probability higher then 0%, if the probability is 0% then it is impossible.

This power does not manipulate probaility in any direct way, it only manipulates if something can or cannot happen.

To best describe this power i have created this scenario below

You have people A, B and C trapped individually in 3 different cages on 3 different paths called 1, 2 and 3 respectively. You must choose which path to go down, if you go down path 1 ,A will survive but B and C will die; if you go down path 2, B will survive but A and C will die; and if you go down path 3, C will survive but A and B will die. As it is no matter what you do you can only save one person and yet the other two die, in other words it is possible to save either A, B or C but not all of them at once. With possibility reconstruction you can take the possibility of A surviving by going down path 1 and combine it with the possibilites of B and C  by going down their respective paths to create a outcome where all 3 survive. Now it is possible to save all 3 people. The problem with this power is that even though we can make it possible we don't know how probable it is other than that  it has a probability higher then 0%.