[MD] Freedom

[Krimel]

> [John]
> And more to Arlo's point, making choice dependent upon chance has a 
> certain truth ring to it, but I'm not sure I'll buy it.   It makes ME and 
> MY existence dependent upon chaotic chance. Shudders.  Existential angst 
> comes all over me.
>
> [Krimel]
> We make choices as a way of influencing chance. We seek to improve our 
> odds of attaining goals or achieving our hearts desire. That is what 
> evolution is all about and all living things have some ability to perceive

> their odds in such matters and to act on them.
>
> Your existence is nothing but the outcome of lots and lots of random
> events.
> A particular sperm fertilized a particular egg at a particular place at a
> particular time. If any of those particulars had been minutely different,
> right down to the quantum level, you would be someone else.

[John]
Now you're *trying* to give me the shivers Krimel... but it won't work.
if .. if .. if ...
if wishes were ponies, beggars wouldn't need to look far for rose
fertilizer.
I AM; so postualating all the chances which make me NOT are rhetroical
blowin' in the wind.
Waiter, I don't think this conversation is leading to the Good.

[Krimel]
Where you ARE right NOW
Is the point of 100 percent probability
However you choose
To round that off

Where you were two hours ago 
Is entirely a figment of 
Your ability to remember

Where you will be in two hours
Depends partly on your capacity
To use where you've been
To get where you're going

I don't remember most of the things that have actually happened to me. I
can't even begin to count all the things that didn't even do that. I don't
need a calculator to see that the number of things I can influence is
infinitely out numbered by the things I can't. 

Ahead and Behind you ripple 
Waves of diminishing likelihood
And looming uncertainty

The more you can access the past
The farther ahead you can calculate
Your odds of having a nice tomorrow

The bitch is that
Even having great odds
Does not a guarantee
A Win