[MD] Choosing Chance

[John Carl]

Arlo,

Perhaps choosing chance has value to an individual, but chance itself is a
value-free mathematic construction.

The value is in the choice of chance, not chance itself.

How could I eliminate chance from the the cosmos?  What a random idea.

John

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Arlo Bensinger <ajb102 at psu.edu> wrote:

> [John]
>
> There is no value in chance.  But there's always some chance for value.
>
> [Arlo]
> Chance is *enormous* value. It is the value of something new, something
> unexpected, something AHA!. If you eliminate "chance" from the cosmos, it
> becomes a clock-work machine. "I call it very, very dull." (Vyvyan, The
> Young Ones).
>
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