[MD] Chance

[craigerb at comcast.net]

[Krimmel]
> In this web of causality it is all determined but indeterminable
> until it actually happens.
> If it were all as ruggedly deterministic as you imagine, throwing
> dice would not be considered "gambling".

So "it is all determined"  but not "ruggedly deterministic".
A die is rolled & comes up 3 because of its initial position, its
trajectory & as you say, an infinite number of other conditions.
If it had come up 4, our only explanation is that one of the
conditions was different.
Is Pirsig trying to explain inorganic action on the analogy of
human action or trying to explain human action on the analogy
of inorganic?
Whether throwing the dice is a matter of chance or is
deterministic, it is still gambling.  The gamble is in not knowing
the result of the throw beforehand.
Craig