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Knowledge / Randomness.
« on: August 25, 2010, 11:13:14 PM »
What if "everything" was random and nothing certain? Nothing always happens, and is always subject to randomness and uncertainty.
Explain... sure... I'll try.
Sometimes we tend to consider things to be absolute or guaranteed to happen, but when in fact things are just really "likely" to happen. Lets define intuition as a database of events or experiences and are able to recall and reference whenever a decision needs to be made.
Example 1:
Whenever I drive to work, I know that its going to only take me 30 minutes to get from driveway to desk, so the race is on. I run trial after trial, and come to believe that without a doubt I will make it to work, on time everyday at 8:00am if i leave at 7:30am. One day my friend Randomness decides to play a little prank and delivers me a snowstorm over night and throws the whole time calculation out of wack. Tomorrow..... I'm going to wake up 15mins early.
Explain... sure... I'll try.
Sometimes we tend to consider things to be absolute or guaranteed to happen, but when in fact things are just really "likely" to happen. Lets define intuition as a database of events or experiences and are able to recall and reference whenever a decision needs to be made.
Example 1:
Whenever I drive to work, I know that its going to only take me 30 minutes to get from driveway to desk, so the race is on. I run trial after trial, and come to believe that without a doubt I will make it to work, on time everyday at 8:00am if i leave at 7:30am. One day my friend Randomness decides to play a little prank and delivers me a snowstorm over night and throws the whole time calculation out of wack. Tomorrow..... I'm going to wake up 15mins early.