dunja

Christian and I talked today at the lunch time about the universe being determined to take a particular path, it rolls on and on, taking only one path, one possibility out of infinitely many different ones; but then at some point it develops certain form of consciousness – for example, us humans, – which can think of other possibilities, other directions, other lives of the universe. It’s almost as if the universe compensates its only-one-way by creating minds that can imagine what it itself lacks…

(It’s funny that we came to this topic by discussing how to clean all the dirty dishes in our new kitchen which has no cupboards nor a dishwasher, and Christian said that maybe we should just skip the cleaning part cause, after all, it’s not impossible that our dishes might decompose into a perfectly clean kitchen :) Well, it really isn’t impossible, but it’s zillion times less probable than winning in lottery five times in a row. But then comes an interesting point: if we extend the time to some extremely high measures, it all gets more probable, and not only that but also for example, the possibility that our kitchen turns into a dog or a bear :) It’s interesting that everyday language often deals with various (not very probable) possibilities as complete impossibilities – we need to protect our minds from being overwhelmed by an uncontrollable world; we need to set reference-pillars, “hinge-propositions” that will give us coordinates so we don’t feel completely lost… we need to squeeze the universe into a ball although that won’t be it, that won’t be it, at all…)