> > Not quite certain how to phrase this, but here
> > goes. If I turn on the radio, and my song is
> > on...is this a coincidence, or is this what you
> > speak of?
>
> It could be either. The very short version of what I said is basically that coincidences don't often happen by chance. So you hearing that song may have been coincidence - it just happened to come on after you'd been thinking about it - or it may have been *because* you were thinking about it. In my view, the latter is more likely.
>
> I'l not talking about telekinesis, or things like that. I'm talking about affecting an intangible thing, an event, a metaphysical state. In this case, you influence the DJ, station manager, cleaner who stacked up the records after knocking them over, etc. to go for that song, rather than physically making that song be on the top of the pile.
>
> Matthew

Hmmm... So everyone who tunes into radio station X is influencing the DJ to play their particular favourite song. So do these get tallied into some kind of majority vote? Or does one individual's preference count for more than all the other individuals'?

Also, I'd like you to explain what you mean by the phrase "coincidences don't often happen by chance" - So far as I can tell, coincidences don't often happen at all. At least not in comparison to non-coincidences.

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