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20201219.01 — 0619

Roland Mann

In a game of chance, I put a two six-sided dice in a cup, rattle them around and turn the cup upside down on a table. The dice will have landed, but no one knows which faces are up.

Then we guess, what is the total dice roll?

There a 6 ways of rolling a 7, out of thirty six possible combinations. So I'm going with 7. I can expect a 7/36 chance of getting seven.

So after everyone has guessed, I lift the cup and uncover the dice. Seven it is.

Probability is a measure of the chance of an event happening. The event I was considering was getting a seven. So when did this event happen? Was it when the dice landed, or when they were uncovered? Or some other time? Or was there no event at all?

Does it make any difference if we guessed before or after I tossed the dice?

20201219.02 — 0916

That anything is there is or not and that there is something happening or not (an event) are the Peircean three subjects-nonsense sense (sign, object and interpretation), namely not that everything is word, i.e., word, what sense is (everything is monistic sense [word]), but that WORD is a mere token (sign), in fact that it is Gödel's incompleteness, as the infinitesimal is to unity, the singular impediment to understanding.

That is where the oraculous comes in re. magic or the unspeakable or mysterious It, whereby word-encoded formalities (geometry) and informalities (colloquialism) are but human chicanery.*

* Chicanery: mere-human agency, most lately by self-fulfilling prophecy emergent as mob zombie and junkie wokeness self-organized by the "independent" comradeship, "together" subject to pharmacratic and technocratic psychopathy.

Cont. Blog22.1230#t0844

20201219.03 — 0921

Roland Mann

'Oraculous Chicanery' is worthy of Gladstone.

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Ronald Green

An event has happened only when it is observed to have happened. It can't happen when nobody knows that it is happening, or indeed that it has happened. We know that the die landed, because we heard it land. As for what the number is, it is not ' fact' that there was a seven until we observed it. We can say that it was a retrospective 'fact', but a fact before we knew about it makes no sense.

Probabilities have nothing to do with the time of guessing. Probabilities are not changed retroactively, nor my magic.

In short, things don't happen. They happened.

Why?

.05 — 0143

Ronald Green

Our observations, according to theories that we have worked out, show us that there was what we call the Big Bang. If we didn't observe the results of the Big Bang, then of course it wouldn't have happened.

How can something happen that we don't know about?

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