The blade of grass next to it is one where Jobs forgets he has cancer, the one next to it is one where Jobs gives up his material possessions and becomes a monk, the one next to it is one where Jobs suffers brain damage due to an unexplainable quantum event in his skull..
The last one is a much smaller blade of grass than the other two. But your basic point seems correct.
Do you think so? Maybe forgetting about the cancer could be caused by something happening to a handful of neurons or synapses. I'm not sure how many neurons would have to be messed with to make him an ascetic. A burst blood vessel in his brain could be lethal; I don't know if this would have to come about through a mechanical anomaly, or if an anomaly on the molecular scale could trigger it by inducing apoptosis.
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