Hey, no worries, but again let me say, I’ve really no idea if this is even close to the reason, but it could be a reason for some.
As for potentials and possibilities, I really don’t mean anything occult: simply your everyday, average possibilities and potentials.
So, what I mean is, there is simply way too many possible combinations of potential sequences of cards for anyone to think about. I’ll try to sketch out how it could be overwhelming for someone.
Suppose you are a bit of an obsessive person, or possibly mildly autistic. Now also suppose that your mind has a habit of “counting” and/or “grouping” objects in different possible sets of relations—you might do this consciously, but more than likely you simply do it, and might not even always be conscious of the results of such a process. So you walk into a room and there’s some stuff in it: a couch, a TV, a VCR—you know, regular “family room” type stuff. So you might flash through a series of images, feelings, or intuitions about not only how the room is, but how it could be—depending on how the ordering and grouping is accomplished (that TV could be here, that couch there, and etc.). Mostly, the possibilities of such (sub or un)conscious selection would be small, and thus, readily processed by the mind. However, as I tried to sketch out above, with, say, a hundred decks of cards there are a staggering number of possible groupings and orderings that could arise: I can’t even begin to try to estimate how many sequences or patterns could be potentially recovered from 100 decks of 52 cards each—I wonder if even our best computers could calculate the number? I mean, there’s simply way too many variables here! So, if a person was prone to this sort of behaviour (not good or bad mind you, merely a way of being in the world), then a tiny little room containing what for all practical purposes is an infinity might cause this sort of person a feeling of unease or distress since their mind can in no way deal with the habitual processing of this staggering amount of input.
Or not. I mean, it is “heavy” in its own way, but may or may not be the problem here—I have little to no way to know! As for how to “protect” from this, well, if we were like the hypothetical person above, I think we’d merely have to learn to live with it, keep ourselves in low stimulus environments, or perhaps try to break our habits of ordering and counting. Some things we simply can’t process, and I think it's when we can’t process something that we begin to feel anxiety, which if not caught and remedied, can lead to depression. And that's no fun for anyone. |
