[MD] Choosing Chance

[John Carl]

Well said Steve,

And positive proof that you can be an atheist without being a moronist.


Steve:
> Randomness seems like a particularly bad choice to me as a metaphysical
> basis since I see it as an epistemological rather than an ontological
> concept. I see it as a term used to say what we know about something rather
> than about what something is like. Randomness, as I understand the term, is
> used to descibe our ability to make predictions about events rather than a
> property of the events themselves. I believe this issue is what concerned
> Einstein about Quantum Mechanics. I think he saw it as giving ontological
> status to randomness when randomness is a matter of perspective.
>


You and me and Einstein and Pirsig.


John


>
> "Everything is Quality" feels a lot better to me than "everything is
> random"
> which just sounds to me as equivalent to "some things are predictable but
> others are unpredictable from my perspective."
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