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jim barlow · **top down -** 09-20-2005, 07:21 AM

I would like to believe #2. My ingrained prudence tells me to pursue #1 until I reach some signal that says "can't compute." In which case I can return to #2 with a clear conscience and be, let's say, happy.
My personal evolution (if there is one) suggest not only that both options may be true in a LARGER SENSE, but that they support each other in creating a continuum such that both questions become sort of irrelevant. A less fortunate example is the free will and predestination combo. One answer is that "free will" does not compute, it is "free action" that we are after and there is no such thing only choices from a predetermined list.
Returning to our chicken/egg situation it looks to me like a book looking for a writer and presumably finding one. So the interesting thing here is querying the yet unwritten book which is also a product of the eons and possibly a fraction of the story.

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jim barlow Blue Belt Status: Offline Posts: 126 Thanks Given: 0 Thanked 9x in 9 Posts Join Date: Mar 2005 Rep Power: 15	top down - 09-20-2005, 07:21 AM I would like to believe #2. My ingrained prudence tells me to pursue #1 until I reach some signal that says "can't compute." In which case I can return to #2 with a clear conscience and be, let's say, happy. My personal evolution (if there is one) suggest not only that both options may be true in a LARGER SENSE, but that they support each other in creating a continuum such that both questions become sort of irrelevant. A less fortunate example is the free will and predestination combo. One answer is that "free will" does not compute, it is "free action" that we are after and there is no such thing only choices from a predetermined list. Returning to our chicken/egg situation it looks to me like a book looking for a writer and presumably finding one. So the interesting thing here is querying the yet unwritten book which is also a product of the eons and possibly a fraction of the story.