Too many people these days are in a "Delusionship"

[johnrambo]

I can agree to it from one perspective but from another perspective it is hard and in some cases impossible to get out of the natural matrix. Life seems to be deterministic you can not make law of physics go away and you don't even have a real free will. You are just machine. Success is just a concept that happened in your mind.

Speaking of physics, in non-linear systems, a small perturbation in the forcing may lead to a large perturbation in the response, colloquially known as the "butterfly effect". In some situations, e.g., strange attractors, the solution in the phase space looks like a butterfly where the trajectory goes back and forth between two points in the phase space. What I am trying to get is that even though the governing equations are deterministic, the solution may be "chaotic". A chance encounter may change our trajectory. Some recruiter calls you up and offers the job of your dreams but if you mope and complain, you'll miss that chance. In fact, most people will.

BTW, a butterfly's flap in South America cannot cause a hurricane in the Atlantic Basin because there is dissipation terms limiting the radius influence of the butterfly's flap. The butterfly effect has been misquoted from the phase space diagram of the strange attractors.

 

[Epicenter]

Speaking of physics, in non-linear systems, a small perturbation in the forcing may lead to a large perturbation in the response, colloquially known as the "butterfly effect". In some situations, e.g., strange attractors, the solution in the phase space looks like a butterfly where the trajectory goes back and forth between two points in the phase space. What I am trying to get is that even though the governing equations are deterministic, the solution may be "chaotic". A chance encounter may change our trajectory. Some recruiter calls you up and offers the job of your dreams but if you mope and complain, you'll miss that chance. In fact, most people will.

BTW, a butterfly's flap in South America cannot cause a hurricane in the Atlantic Basin because there is dissipation terms limiting the radius influence of the butterfly's flap. The butterfly effect has been misquoted from the phase space diagram of the strange attractors.

From the one perspective I gave there are no 'chance encounters' in the physical world in the absolute sense.