[HPforGrownups] Re: Psychological Theories & Lit. Crit.

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 7597

Sorry if I missed a major point--the post to which this comment is directed came
through very fragmented. I've also been getting multiple posts of some, and
missing others entirely. What gives?

naama wrote:

> Yes, I really, really do. I find the thought of a completely determined world
> very barren.

It sort of depends on where you sit. Even if it *is* completely determined,
unless the human perspective can grasp it all, it won't *seem* that way to our
viewpoint, will it? I always sort of thought time was the way we experienced a
determined universe, so that we, as components of it, did not know all the
outcomes beforehand, thus keeping randomness a part of the pattern.

Did that make any sense? I remember this thought of mine never sat well with a
former roommate, the one who always read the last page of a book first so he'd
know how it ended and could then read in peace without the tension of
uncertainty....

--Amanda