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To: thomaswest
It seems to be true that humans mentally prefer predictability and certainty,..

Except for casino owners. Of course, randomness has its own laws; and if molecules exist, randomly generated events are just a predictable as deterministic.

208 posted on 07/23/2006 8:20:00 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: Doctor Stochastic
Re 208: It seems to be true that humans mentally prefer predictability and certainty,.. Except for casino owners. Of course, randomness has its own laws; and if molecules exist, randomly generated events are just a predictable as deterministic.

Casino owners absolutely love statistical predictability. They predict that for every one who goes home richer, two will go home poorer. For every dollar bet, they will get on average 1/5th of it. Their prediction makes them very rich.

The foolish ones are those who pray, listen to psychics, have lucky charms, etc., who think they will beat predictability.

221 posted on 07/23/2006 9:34:43 PM PDT by thomaswest (On ID: "We've been attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of the culture.")
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