Interesting talk so far. On the blades of grass counting. I wonder if his view changes with the grandeur of a task. Such as instead of counting grass blades, how about counting stars, or counting planets, how about assuming its bountiful, counting different types of life forms in the universe. Initially one might say those things are amazing and a worthy goal. Does that change on your 7000th basically undiscernible red dwarf, gas giant etc? If you derive meaning and pleasure from seeing the different patterns of the turbulence on the gas giants, is it not possible to while counting grass blades notice the intricate patterns of the cells which make up the grass, take pleasure in the 1 in 1000 blades that is oddly unique?  Not sure, but I think I go with Lex's thoughts there.  <br>On the other side yeah, counting blades is pointless and id say that put a bit differently, the grass blade counter has no interest in the task, if they are forced to it etc.