Underlying every action we take and each process we go through to get to "Point B" in daily life depends on something else. Often, it depends on someone else-- someone who came before us and decided that the letter A should look like:
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She also decided that a minute would be sixty-seconds long, and that her ideas about science were valid, while those strange incidences in Scandinavia and Africa--black rains, lake monsters, ghost sightings--were invalid. That such ideas were the fuel of the foolish.
Yet, these building blocks of daily life are not limited to decisions of others, For we each must make assumptions in order to reach Point B". In discussing blackboxes, we are not asking who made them, or if they are correct in their essence, but rather: what is inside them? In that moment in which we step from Point A to Point B, what happens? What goes on at Point A and 1/2?
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