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Old 07-19-2015, 10:26 PM   #81 (permalink)
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Still works. Lots of words, still no sense or reason. But if it works for you, cool.

Doesn't work for me.
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I agree and understand your counter-arguments, but I think the brain is reasonable explanation for things happening differently. It's reasonable for someone to remember or forget something that alters their path creating a split timeline.
Why would Person A remember something that Person B wouldn't in an identical universe?

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You don't have control over every thought you have
What does having control of your thoughts have to do with anything?

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and you don't respond to the same thing the same way every time.
Without my hypothetical infinitive universe experiment, that is an unprovable assertion. Every situation is different, so you can't apply past results to future ones. Just because some guy punched you in the face once and you kicked his ass, doesn't mean that you actually responded differently when you restrained yourself another time.

Maybe the second guy was bigger than you, maybe you were sober, maybe you were just older and not a dumbass, or any number of other reasons that could explain why you would react differently in two situations that were really only superficially alike.
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