Re: Predictions, determinism, and megalomania
Matthew, on host 62.30.192.1
Saturday, March 23, 2002, at 22:41:53
Re: Predictions, determinism, and megalomania posted by Tess on Saturday, March 23, 2002, at 22:28:52:
> Not quite certain how to phrase this, but here > goes. If I turn on the radio, and my song is > on...is this a coincidence, or is this what you > speak of?
It could be either. The very short version of what I said is basically that coincidences don't often happen by chance. So you hearing that song may have been coincidence - it just happened to come on after you'd been thinking about it - or it may have been *because* you were thinking about it. In my view, the latter is more likely.
I'l not talking about telekinesis, or things like that. I'm talking about affecting an intangible thing, an event, a metaphysical state. In this case, you influence the DJ, station manager, cleaner who stacked up the records after knocking them over, etc. to go for that song, rather than physically making that song be on the top of the pile.
Matthew
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