I used to call this thinking about Life The Universe And Everything.
Basically after much time i realized it was moot. Either we are in control of our actions, or our actions are predetermined by what has happened before. If you assume you can affect your life through independant thought/action, you can go through life tying to improve your life. If you assume it is all predetermined there isnt much point in doing anything. Either way you can never know 100% which is the truth. But you can act in such a way that will give you freedom of thought and action.
So Yus i say to you:
Either touch the dang chair and get it over with or close the door and never go back into that room or even think of it again.
Kinda makes me think of Harry Potter and the mirror of erised. As Dumbledore said people have wasted their lives in front of it. Dont waste your life stand up and assert I AM IN CONTROL I WILL LIVE MY LIFE AS I DEEM BEST.
As for the dominoes, I remember there was a guy in belgium who they thought was in a coma for 20 years, turns out he wasn't. He was aware of everything but he was 100% paralyzed. Seems to me he would have some interesting perspective on this.
