From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Wed Oct 30 2002 - 12:33:41 GMT
Hi Steve, Patrick:
> Steve writes:
> I also wanted to get to Platt's statement about randomness. This is an
> issue that I have wrestled with for a long time (since I am a statistics
> teacher) and I am hopeful that moq can clear it up as it has done for other
> Platypi.
IMO, chance, luck, randomness are all synonyms for "unknown cause,"
I base my view on Pirsig's observation in Lila:
"The more you try to say what randomness is the less random it
becomes." (5)
> The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle says there is a veil behind which we
> can't look. But is this veil like my hand covering up the coin?--a
> determined outcome that we just can't know--or is it true randomness behind
> this veil? For that matter, has every outcome already been determined?
> What about free will?
>
> I understand that this dilemma is a result of subject-object thinking, but
> can moq sort it out?
>From Lila, Chap. 12 comes the solution to the determinism-free will
platypus:
“To the extent that one's behavior is controlled by static patterns of
quality it is without choice. But to the extent that one follows Dynamic
Quality, which is undefinable, one's behavior is free.” (12)
Platt
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