Write4U
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Yep, but when you win, the pay-out is a deterministic event.Write-4U;
A lottery can be described with math, but predictions are only probabilities, as with weather and quantum physics.
If you win the lottery it's just a coincidence.
And there is always the law of "necessity and sufficiency". Sometimes the presence of sufficient causal agents, make it "necessary" for an event to occur. The more lottery tickets you buy the greater the possibility of winning.
I have no quarrel with any of that. I am not concerned with people's actions and/or limitations.A person wearing a good luck whatever will attribute their lack of danger to it, making associations where there are none. People make associations whenever it's convenient or reassuring.
As for things like charity, a study will measure the degree in terms of monetary units.
How easy to be charitable if you are rich. What about motive?
My position is that the Universe needs not be motivated at all. It is a dynamical object to begin with. It functions stochastically in accordance with the 4 fundamental forces acting on 12 elementary values.
I agree, but none of that is relevant.If human thinking understood how the universe works, we could stop doing scientific research.
The reality is, they don't and can't know, and make it up as they go.
Truth will never be decided by an opinion poll!
My statement was that the Universe has no such human limitations. It doesn't need to understand anything.
Self-reference does not necessarily imply understanding (Newton). However, given enough time and natural resources, it may evolve consciously self-referential organisms, like humans.