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# 4 16-01-2004 , 12:50 PM
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Elemenopee, very good observation! I will argue against you however. I was actually faced with this exact aspect of my theory two days ago...

Let's say you have two apples. They are of equal value. They are the same color, size, shape, have the same texture, the light glares off them the same way, etc. You are ambidextrious (neither right or left handed) as well. You are to choose one of the apples. You choose the left apple. Why did you choose that one over the right one?

Pony mentioned that it might be a gamble. In my terms, I might say that the human brain was hardwired to supply a decision with a random value that is used to choose, however I do not believe this to be true because even random commands in computer programs are based upon some logical algorithm. So, choosing the left apple simply because your brain made a random decision is not an option.

What I believe is the deciding factor, is not an attribute of the apple, but of yourself. You can take extremely subtle events into account that would have at least some effect upon a decision. Perhaps your left arm was slightly less numb that the right, so you used it to grab an apple. Since you did, you will immidiately bring logic into the equation and choose the left apple since it is closest to your left arm and by some previous event in your life, you already know that it is more efficient to grab the left apple rather than the right because it IS closer. Obviously, minut factors such as these work only on a subconcious level. This is why it is usually so difficult to interpret decisions like these. You can easily imagine how many of these tiny factors can exist. Note that all of them still hold true to my original argument that they must be in the past. (your arm being numb already happened before you made the decision to choose the left apple)


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