(April 11, 2014 at 8:50 am)Heywood Wrote: When it is said that randomness is a function of ignorance, what is meant is that the variables responsible for a result are unknown to the observer of the "random" event.
Are you trying to imply that there is some hidden purpose behind every event we interpret as random? From dice rolls to lightning strikes, that sort of thing?
You know, I think I would actually like to meet this god of Yahtzee. S/he sounds like a barrel of laughs.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'