Amy Nelsen

Underlying every action you take and each process you go through to get to "Point B" in daily life depends on something else. Often, it depends on someone else-- someone who came before your and decided that the letter A should look like:

A

And that a minute would be sixty-seconds long, 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, either. For we each must make assumptions in our feeble attempts at "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?