HB wrote:[vbcol=seagreen]
> Bee wrote: 
> That assumption bit stuck with me.
> I wondered what planet is Bee living on where Bee is not influenced or
> does not influence others???
> then I thought, perhaps Bee thinks the waves in the anology are taken
> as real by me.
> the "waves" are manifest in our thoughts, words, deeds. The
> psychological and sociological journals are full of research and
> studies that show how people influence and are influenced by the world
> (other people included) around them.
> No metaphysical esoteric mumbojumbo required. 



Ah, your objects are human, not any identity.  Interpersonal relationships
constitute your matrix.  That is Social Network.  However, it does not
answer the OP's question; it is off target.

The original question inquires if an emergence of a particular sort of event
happens by chance or mediated by an intelligence.  This event is the
unintuitive overlap, an instantaneous (static) moment, of two disparate,
independent identities, each can take an infinite number of forms, or at
least many, too many that these two are unlikely to cross each other's path.
Networking addresses the issue of how one phenomenon/fact propagates/spreads
(dynamic) to the rest of the set.

An example of a *co*-incidence is: in an empty room, there is a humming
mosquito.  It's so annoying that you take a bow and arrow (always assuming
you have a bow and arrow by your bedside!) and shoot aiminglessly in no one
direction.  Presto, the humming stops,  You examine the tip of the arrow and
there you find the beastie, squashed.  The mosquito had infinite number of
flight path options, so had the arrow, and yet they met head on.  The odds
of this moment are one in 10^*.  The * is a huge number if this can be
calculated.  A founding father -- I think he was the professor at
Wisconsin -- of modern Statistics commended in the 50's on just such a
number, he was looking at 10^19 , that the chances of such happening should
really be considered as nil.  When it does happen, one really has to
consider an intervention from an intelligence.  This weighing up of the
chances is not on the agendum in considering whether one phenomenon/fact has
propagated/spread to one particular node.

Fascinating stuff.  If you are interested, Duncan Watts' book " Six Degrees:
The Science of a Connected Age" can be recommended.
http://tinyurl.com/6fnog

Bee.
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