[MD] Choosing Chance

[markhsmit]

On Jan 20, 2010, at 1:00:39 PM, Krimel <Krimel at Krimel.com> wrote:
[Krimel]
Notice that both 0 and 100% probability are certainties. They represent
Never and Always. Chance is a way of talking about everything in 
between. We
live in the realm of chance and factoring of odds. We don't live long 
enough
to have much to say for certain about Always or Never.

As for the "choice" of broccoli or vanilla:

"We dispose of free will in the way that the American divine of the 
18th
century Jonathan Edwards did. He said, 'We believe in free will 
because we
know about our behavior but not about its causes.' Of course it is the
object of a science of behavior to discover causes and once you have 
found
those causes there is less you need to attribute to an internal act of 
will
and eventually I think you need to attribute nothing to it."
- B.F. Skinner
[Mark]
Skinner had no choice but to make the statement above, so it should 
not be attributed
to him, unless we attribute things to the medium relaying the messages 
in the seance.