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   From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   Julian  wrote:   
   > On 14/09/2016 21:25, noname wrote:   
   >> Tang Huyen  wrote:   
   >>> On 9/13/2016 8:42 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> The 1 in a million coincidences get noticed.  The other 9999999 misses   
   >>>> aren't noticed.   
   >>>   
   >>> The random mutations that guide evolution   
   >>> roughly work on the same principle, that the   
   >>> 1 in a million mutations get noticed, and   
   >>> that the other 9999999 misses aren't noticed.   
   >>> Mother Nature notices that 1 in a million   
   >>> mutations offers some better chance at   
   >>> survival and even blossoming, and that the   
   >>> other 9999999 don't, or even can drive the   
   >>> species to the ground. Sometimes success   
   >>> can go wild and drive the species to the   
   >>> ground, like the armour plates of dinosaurs,   
   >>> or just the mere size of the whole animals, as   
   >>> some dinosaurs in South America rise to   
   >>> seven stories high and are essentially eating   
   >>> machines. Scientists (and not even scientists,   
   >>> but mere mortals) wonder how they can have   
   >>> sex.   
   >>>   
   >>> Mental culture and religion essentially work   
   >>> on the same principle, too, as 1 in a million   
   >>> strivers hit the jackpot, so to speak, and   
   >>> successfully start a trend in mental culture   
   >>> or a religion, like in Buddhism, Daoism,   
   >>> Jewish mythology, etc. Ditto for political   
   >>> leaders, like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Hitler,   
   >>> Gandhi, Trump, etc. whilst the other   
   >>> 9999999 don't get any traction and instead   
   >>> drop into the dust bin of history.   
   >>>   
   >>> It's a brutal world.   
   >>>   
   >>> Tang Huyen   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> There are no random mutations.  None.  Everything is mutating, all the   
   >> time.  Then people come along and look at the survivors and say they're the   
   >> result of "random" mutations.  There's nothing "random" about it, those are   
   >> the few of the infinite number of different kinds of survivors who actually   
   >> survived.   
   >   
   > Is there anything random at all?   
   > I suspect it is just a name for things not yet understood.   
   >   
      
   As far as I have been able to tell, there are no "random" occurrences   
   whatsoever, but many whose exact causality can't be determined.  In the   
   sense of details-being-inexactly-predictable, everything is "random".  The   
   wildcard is the free-choice of sentient beings, us people-beings are   
   deciding everything, at levels we are largely unaware of.  Then down the   
   line the details show up as this or that.  Reality looks different from the   
   top down than it does from the bottom up so to speak.   
      
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