Wednesday 12 January 2011

Life is about making mistakes

No one is perfect.  We all can make mistakes. But, what if the world conspires so that the mistake you make is really big.

If you have watched the TV series,'One thousand ways to die', you will be aware of the fact that mistakes can be fatal, such as walking out onto a street without looking, operating a mobile phone when you should be focusing on your driving.  

Mistakes will happen and we all wish to minimize them.  The real issue is whether what we regard as mistakes really are mistakes in the grand scheme of things.   Maybe mistakes have to happen?  

Error control science of cybernetics and quality control management is about minimizing errors. The problem is that doing the right thing from one perspective may be the wrong thing from another.  

In other words errors may be relative in some key way?

Here is a case study:

Searching for meaning in the mistake
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Time is, was and will be.  Without time we would not be.  What a load it has to carry!  Time seems eternal!  You might even ask whether cycles in time exist?  If so read Roger Penrose's book on new attitudes in physics towards possible "Cycles in Time".
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