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To: Sultan who wrote (291)	1/10/2005 4:53:49 PM
From: HG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 536

Hi Sultan, Ah yes, Chance and Randomness. Two days ago I was driving with a friend and discussing the subject - how every seemingly mundane, insignificant, unthoughtful, random act/event/moment has the power to change our lives forever. Simple twist of fate. He is an entrepreneur who designs technology based on mechanisms borrowed from nature - he has this theory about depression - how one day technology will enable us to pull out a certain unhappy memory from our brain so that we are no longer plagued by unpleasant thoughts. My response was that every single moment is like a brick in our wall of life. You just can't pull out a brick and expect the wall to stand. Since he did not understand, I pulled over to the side, watched the beautiful sunset for 2 minutes before resuming my driving, and explained how this 2 minute exercise had now changed our entire life. The experience could not be pulled out of our consciousness - ever - without serious consequences to our psyche, because the pointers (feelings, emotions, memories) that draw from or go back to the event would draw a null....the instability (or instabilities like these) may result in individual and environmental system crash. Alternately, by pulling over, we may have avoided (or caused) a serious accident (thus affecting environment and other lives), everything in our life will be delayed by 2 minutes etc etc. The ripples of this act were very wide (a consequence of that experience is this discussion on SI, and your willing/unwilling participation in it). If the event was now to be erased from my memory, even YOUR system would feel the effects... I'm going to have to read this book to validate my own hypothesis....<g>