Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Undecidability of decisions

Big time. Decision time. So sit down with your paper and pencil and put on your thinking cap (if you have got one). Start out by listing first the possibilities and all the pros and cons. When you get confused, call up a friend and ask him to come over to help you. That way your piece of paper will look a lot fuller than you could have made it look if you had done the whole thing alone.

Finally when you make a decision it may have nothing to do whatsoever with what you have written down. Are you under the impression that you can make decisions about your life? Then think again. Many unexpected things keep happening and there are so many surprises. If there is one illusion which humans suffer it is the illusion that they will be able to steer their way through the course of events in future sitting here in the present. I am almost sure that this is not possible.

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