Funny Chatter

I recently watched a documentary on astro-physics and the origin and destiny of the universe. One of the distinguished scientists said that understanding the origin and predicting the demise of the universe is actually quite simple, it being purely a matter of mathematics. When compared to achieving that same level of understanding about his son, however, the variables are too complex and interrelated and unknowable. Will his son become a physicist, a musician? What will he choose to do with his life...?

I'm not generally willing to give scientists much credit for having figured anything out that is really important. The so-called "soft sciences" of psychology, sociology, etc. are only soft because the minds of the scientists are soft.

The following conversation between my two daughters, video taped without their knowledge, reveals the playfulness of the human mind and human interaction. While to them nothing in the conversation seemed random, to a scientists it would be a hopeless task to attempt to explain why they say what they say and to predict what they will say next. What we see here is free will at play. It is understood through experience but it cannot be explained. It makes me laugh and that is all I need to "know".

Click here to see the video: http://gallery.me.com/bsabey#100047