In the first scenario, the answer seems to depend on the chance of you failing to resend the CD. In the second, on the chance of you deciding to send a CD even if you haven’t received anything. So as long as you can’t make these probabilities literally zero, I think the system can still be made to work.
And yeah, seconding A113′s recommendation of “Be Here Now”. That story, along with the movie Primer, was my inspiration for the model.
In the first scenario, the answer seems to depend on the chance of you failing to resend the CD. In the second, on the chance of you deciding to send a CD even if you haven’t received anything. So as long as you can’t make these probabilities literally zero, I think the system can still be made to work.
And yeah, seconding A113′s recommendation of “Be Here Now”. That story, along with the movie Primer, was my inspiration for the model.