created 2025-03-14, & modified, =this.modified
The difference of effort of something dropped into a million pieces.
Say you are constructing an elaborate tower. You carelessly knock it over and it falls on the floor, scattered into millions of pieces in collision with itself and the floor.
You are distraught. Your beautiful creation of effort, dashed by chance.
Then the effort of this: building a tower and then precisely replicating the places where each piece would have fallen. An overhead camera with an onion skin and object detection allows for precise location match, or it is done completely by hand.
Someone visits to see what work you’ve done, first the fallen and then recreated ruin. Both are the same, the collapsed tower and the creation of the collapse tower. It is imperceptible.
What of making this an example of life? All glances become the same kind of planted coincidence. You and me, just independent entities that happen to interact at the same time. I speak to you, but I am speaking fully coincidentally correct, and you, who is in conversation with me, coincidentally respond to what I am saying.
I wave at you, you wave at me. But we never wave at each other.