Re: Lottery drawings and sensitivity to initial conditions

Michael Ash skreiv:

> Is history a pencil balanced on its tip?
(...)
> Is history a cannonball? 

Or is it a -flattened- cannonball; that is one that will tend to stay 
pretty much where it is, even when subject to moderate pushes ?

I agree with you; I think most of the time we're a sphere, but sometimes 
the sphere is taller and sometimes it is flatter.

The same goes on a personal level: Certain decisions you make 
(consciously or not) end up having a HUGE impact on the rest of your 
life, others have little impact.

The trick is that I don't think it's possible to know which decisions 
belong to which category. You may think a certain decision is trivial, 
but choosing a certain way means you never meet the girl who'd otherwise 
become your wife, or means you'll be hit by a car and spend the rest of 
your life in a wheelchair.



	Eivind