[time-nuts] On Finding Things

[Steve Rooke]

Perhaps its the fairies at the bottom of my garden :)

Steve

On 08/08/2010, J. L. Trantham <jltran at att.net> wrote:
> Are you sure it was there all the time?  The same thing happens to me.
>
> I wonder about these things. :^)
>
> Joe
>
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>
> What your saying is that it is a form of selective blindness where the brain
> filters out an item it does not want to see but if your looking for
> something specifically, I wonder why this happens. I have experienced this
> many times, I try to find something that I had just a moment ago and cannot
> find it until it suddenly appears, as if by magic, right in front of me and
> was there all the time.
>
> Steve
>
> On 08/08/2010, Arthur Dent <golgarfrincham at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Brooke Clarke posted this quote, which I really like:
>> "Now, a few words on looking for things. When you go looking for
>> something specific, your chances of finding it are very bad. Because
>> of all the things in the world, you're only looking for one of them.
>> When you go looking for anything at all, your chances of finding it
>> are very good. Because of all the things in the world, you're sure to
>> find some of them."
>>
>> Although not the same, I think that this theory of trying to find
>> things may be related to the SEP, or Somebody Else's Problem, that
>> Douglas Adams describes in "Life, the Universe and Everything"
>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> "An SEP is something we can't see, or don't see, or our brain doesn't
>> let us see, because we think that it's somebody else's problem.... The
>> brain just edits it out,
>> it's like a blind spot. If you look at it directly you won't see it unless
>> you know precisely
>> what it is. Your only hope is to catch it by surprise out of the corner of
>> your eye."
>>
>> -Arthur Dent
>>
>>
>>
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Steve Rooke - ZL3TUV & G8KVD
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
- Einstein