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? asked in Arts & HumanitiesPhilosophy · 9 years ago

Is this plausible in any context? (science, food, ideas)?

If there are a limited amount of notes and a limited amount of words, is it plausible that the exact same piece of music or song could occur randomly if the two writers / performers have never met. Say, if they were separated by vast amounts of time and space.

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
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    Of course it's possible, but the chances are 1 in a million. Think about it.

    You are asking a "What if?" question. When, in our lives, or perhaps in another, will that situation ever occur?

    But that is thinking realistically.

    Now, if I were to say it is quite possible because we have had past lives before, and we are really all intrinsically connected, then yes.

    And besides, it's happened in history. One guy invents something across the globe from another guy, and one guy grabs the patent first. First guy sues for intellectual property. And these two hadn't met, they had just been working on the same thing in the same circumstances. This goes for really any idea.

    Source(s): Just my opinion.
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