Did you ever wish you could undo something you had done?
And once you realized that was not possible, did you wish you could make a similar counter-action - like making amends - to at least partially undo the effects of the first action?
Well, IMHO it's like trying to exactly retrace a random walk in the dark, while being drunk.
For one, no footstep can be undone simply because the footstep events are occurring at different times.
(What if there was x amount of snow during the first stepmaking process, and a different amount of precip on the ground when trying to recreate/undo the step? What if a butterfly is flapping his wings in Japan the second time?)
All the variables are never exactly the same.
I guess all I wish to say is, 6 me.
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I agree. Even if we could go back and try to reverse what we have done, would our actions be relevant to the timeline we came from, or would we then be in a completely different causal chain? What if, due to the random and chaotic nature of the physical world and humans interacting with it, the events and chance encounters leading up to the mistake we regret never occurred in the first place, so there was nothing to undo? We move forward trying to guess at the future and hopefully learning from the past.
Seems to increase the meaning of every action. Good point.
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