Do you think so? Maybe forgetting about the cancer could be caused by something happening to a handful of neurons or synapses. I’m not sure how many neurons would have to be messed with to make him an ascetic. A burst blood vessel in his brain could be lethal; I don’t know if this would have to come about through a mechanical anomaly, or if an anomaly on the molecular scale could trigger it by inducing apoptosis.
You are right. It isn’t as obvious as I thought. The rough thought process was that we know that very rarely people on occasion do due the first two in response to diseases and terrible tragedies. But I wasn’t thinking about the issue that I don’t have a good estimate for what fraction of strokes and similar events are caused by unlikely quantum events. Without a better idea of how those numbers stand and a comparison for how much quantum dice rolling would be required for Jobs to have decided to become a monk I can’t tell. I do suspect that the monk thing is more likely because Jobs was a member of a religious tradition that actually did that sort of thing. But without a lot more thinking this isn’t much more than a vague intuition.
Do you think so? Maybe forgetting about the cancer could be caused by something happening to a handful of neurons or synapses. I’m not sure how many neurons would have to be messed with to make him an ascetic. A burst blood vessel in his brain could be lethal; I don’t know if this would have to come about through a mechanical anomaly, or if an anomaly on the molecular scale could trigger it by inducing apoptosis.
You are right. It isn’t as obvious as I thought. The rough thought process was that we know that very rarely people on occasion do due the first two in response to diseases and terrible tragedies. But I wasn’t thinking about the issue that I don’t have a good estimate for what fraction of strokes and similar events are caused by unlikely quantum events. Without a better idea of how those numbers stand and a comparison for how much quantum dice rolling would be required for Jobs to have decided to become a monk I can’t tell. I do suspect that the monk thing is more likely because Jobs was a member of a religious tradition that actually did that sort of thing. But without a lot more thinking this isn’t much more than a vague intuition.
Yeah, I have a lot of uncertainty in this domain too.