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Originally Posted by JayKon
I don't think I understand where you're coming from. Are you suggesting that you sometimes know what's going to happen?
I'll give you credit for good faith question as opposed to oversimplified overly skeptical scoffing. So, I would ask: would you say that you never know what is going to happen? Let's say you go home 6 hours late from a poker session and your wife is always pissed at such things. Do you know what's going to happen? Can you predict the future that she's going to be pissed? So see, this exposes the question "Are you suggesting that you know what's going to happen?" as grossly oversimplified and in conflict with the facts of normal daily life, a thousand times over.
Obviously, yes, we all many times know what is going to happen, and to imply overly skeptically that this is some kind of magic claim is bullshyt.
So what I'm suggesting is something practically impossible as the function of randomness is happening. Randomness is just a shortcut term anyway. When outcomes get stuck on the super unlikely and can be perceived, something about the nature of reality is being manifest. You know, that nature of reality that is anything but materialism, and where things are very mysterious. He who dismisses the known nature of reality in his shortcut to dealing with it, when he scoffs about its weirdness has already exempted himself by forgetting about its nature intentionally. My closing statement on poker, as on life, is: "This game is probabilistic, but it isn't random. Two very different things." One involves our interpretation and perception of it based on very limited knowledge; the other is about what is really happening, how, and why.