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Magically speaking is randomness actually something that can ever be truly achieved?
Reminds me of an episode of Futurama called Godfellas where Bender talks to a being that is possibly God...
BENDER: So, do you know what I'm gonna do before I do it?
GOD: Yes.
BENDER: What if I do something different?
GOD: Then I don't know that.
BENDER: Cool cool! I bet a lot of people pray to you huh?
GOD: Yes, but there are so many asking so much. After a while you just sorta tune it out.
BENDER: Y'know, I was God once.
GOD: Yes I saw. You were doing well until everyone died.
BENDER: It was awful. I tried helping them. I tried not helping them but in the end I couldn't do them any good. Do you think what I did was wrong?
GOD: Right and wrong are just words. What matters is what you do.
BENDER: Yeah I know, that's why I asked if what I did - forget it.
GOD: Bender, being God isn't easy, if you do too much, people get dependent. And if you do nothing, they lose hope. You have to use a light touch, like a safecrackeror a pickpocket.
BENDER: Or a guy who burns down the bar for the insurance money.
GOD: Yes, if you make it look like an electrical thing. When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.
Could it go beyond even the restrictiveness of a wholly materialistic and mechanistic view of the cosmos?
The old and unsettled free will vs determinism debate, province of drunken philosophers, psychologists, and mystics. My bet's on the Universe being a giant machine and hence deterministic, where part of the form and function of this machine is the illusion of free will which arises from an inability to perceive its workings in their entirety. Magic does indeed work on schedule, however missing the bus is part of the schedule that magic runs by. |
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