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At the risk of sounding vulgar, moving your hips at a slightly different rhythm or conceiving half a second later or any number of completely minute changes to
by Bakary 6y ago
At the risk of sounding vulgar, moving your hips at a slightly different rhythm or conceiving half a second later or any number of completely minute changes to the timeline would also have resulted in a completely different child.
This reminds of the moment when Emil Cioran's mother mentioned how she should have aborted him outright. This led him to the insight that his life was largely an accident contingent on small factors, and that it therefore need not be taken so seriously.
- war1025 6y agoI guess that's my point. Wishing for anything different in the past means wishing away anything good that happened after that moment.
- missedthecue 6y ago"any number of completely minute changes to the timeline would also have resulted in a completely different child." Can you prove this?
- Bakary 6y agoIt's the inevitable logical conclusion based on how human reproduction works. The chance of getting the same spermatozoon in there, the same random genetic variations, the same developmental conditions and so forth is infinitesimally small if the same exact conditions are not met. Even if we ignore all of that, there's still the swirling chaos of causality to contend with, forever altered by that small change...
- Dirlewanger 6y agoChaos theory