> [John] > And more to Arlo's point, making choice dependent upon chance has a > certain truth ring to it, but I'm not sure I'll buy it. It makes ME and > MY existence dependent upon chaotic chance. Shudders. Existential angst > comes all over me. > > [Krimel] > We make choices as a way of influencing chance. We seek to improve our > odds of attaining goals or achieving our hearts desire. That is what > evolution is all about and all living things have some ability to perceive
> their odds in such matters and to act on them. > > Your existence is nothing but the outcome of lots and lots of random > events. > A particular sperm fertilized a particular egg at a particular place at a > particular time. If any of those particulars had been minutely different, > right down to the quantum level, you would be someone else. [John] Now you're *trying* to give me the shivers Krimel... but it won't work. if .. if .. if ... if wishes were ponies, beggars wouldn't need to look far for rose fertilizer. I AM; so postualating all the chances which make me NOT are rhetroical blowin' in the wind. Waiter, I don't think this conversation is leading to the Good. [Krimel] Where you ARE right NOW Is the point of 100 percent probability However you choose To round that off Where you were two hours ago Is entirely a figment of Your ability to remember Where you will be in two hours Depends partly on your capacity To use where you've been To get where you're going I don't remember most of the things that have actually happened to me. I can't even begin to count all the things that didn't even do that. I don't need a calculator to see that the number of things I can influence is infinitely out numbered by the things I can't. Ahead and Behind you ripple Waves of diminishing likelihood And looming uncertainty The more you can access the past The farther ahead you can calculate Your odds of having a nice tomorrow The bitch is that Even having great odds Does not a guarantee A Win Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
