"Bee" <in.my.bonnet@Shangri-La.com> wrote in message news:<4Z32d.493$0n.472@newsfe3-gui.ntli
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> HB wrote: 
>
>
>
> Ah, your objects are human, not any identity.  Interpersonal relationships
> constitute your matrix.

that is a very limited conception.
identity plays a part in interpersonal relationships. as do events.
everything is related, involved with everything else at some level.
and it does not seem to me to be off topic.
seems plain to me that there is no "coincidence", there is no magical
chance, as per my first post on the thread, it is all in your head, or
not.
"> > > > > When two or more things happen at the same time, they
coincide. 

the subsequent posts being just filler.
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> 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 eve
nt
> 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 pat
h.
> Networking addresses the issue of how one phenomenon/fact propagates/sprea
ds
> (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 on
e
> direction.  Presto, the humming stops,  You examine the tip of the arrow a
nd
> 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 shoul
d
> 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 h
as
> propagated/spread to one particular node.
>
> Fascinating stuff.  If you are interested, Duncan Watts' book " Six Degree
s:
> The Science of a Connected Age" can be recommended.
> http://tinyurl.com/6fnog
>
> Bee.

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