That's not so easy to do.


Assuming that I might meet that watch on the beach on the desert island (would the battery still be working?), I suppose that the encounter would take place because it was shining in the sun and I happened to notice something interesting in the sand and bent down to pick it up. It could, perhaps, happen that while wandering on the beach at night I couldn't see where I was going, and thus accidentally stubbed my toe on something which, upon bending down to pick it up, I noticed was a watch, but somehow that's not the picture I have in my mind about how this might happen.

But both of these, improbable as they might be, are something I can picture in my mind. I can't, however, get a clear picture about what I might be doing on that desert island that would cause me to stumble upon the internet.



Go to: No blind watchmaker here, or
Go to: Inventing wheels in cyberspace.