"The human mind as a stochastic processor"
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic
We as humans have a fascination with the concept of randomness.
Some of us are chronic gamblers. We like risky behavior, engage in actions whose consequences are unknown to us at the onset. We make bets and place odds, not just on sanctioned events, but on the daily interactions of self and environment.
We are guessers and hypothesizers, what better opportunity for our predictive abilities? Where have we a more equal playing field than at a task of determining the outcome of 'random' acts. See we're trying to get good at it. We're trying to become the masters of our stochastic processors.
Is there a way to do it?
Randomness = lack of predictability.
We are constantly trying to increase our predicative power. We are waging war on randomness, and yet we value the freedom we seem to imply from its presence in our universe. Is it that one day, the great understanders will come to a realization that they had no choice in realizing?
-dvn
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