Randomness

Hell’s Angels: The True Story of the 303rd Bomb Group in World War II by Jay A. Stout is a revealing insight into the lives of the pilots in the air force at the time of the United States’ entry into WWII. The book primarily concerns itself with telling the history and activity of the 303rd bomb group, providing a detailed description of events and personnel in chronological order starting at the group’s inception. Stout wrote the book because he was a pilot himself and because he wanted to show…

Radical Libertarianism explains that pure chance, irreducible randomness, or quantum indeterminacy that this is the causes of our thoughts and actions that gives us this model of what we call free will. This is not determined by one 's character and values, one 's feelings and desires, one 's motives and reasons, as…

He has these "Non-causal theories" which argues that "our actions must be entirely uncaused." (SEP, pg.1), yet, without a cause, that would mean every action we make is entirely dependent upon randomness. Another counter that against him is that "Non-causal theories of action and free will reject the view that there is an agent who is responsible for causation." (SEP, pg.1) And in all my readings of Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy there is not…

there being a designer was quite interesting to read about this semester. Francisco Ayala wrote an article called, Darwin’s greatest discovery: Design without designer. He writes that the theory of evolution is about chance and necessity along with randomness and determinism. Darwin accepted that organisms are “designed” as many like to call it and are basically functionally organized (Ayala 1). He explains his idea of common descent from modification as being a natural process of designing…

understanding of the topic. The first is an old Chinese story that follows an old man’s circuitous tale of misfortune and fortune that goes on “as long as the patience of the audience permits” (13). Despite the initial perceived frivolousness and randomness of such a tale, the old man’s story is connected to Nibett’s purpose as it demonstrates the Asian fundamental belief towards life. Asians see that the world is “full of contradictions”(13), a shock to the black and white, yes or no Western…

In his 1977 essay, “In Defense of Masks”, Kenneth Gergen introduces the concept of multiple personas and personalities as being ‘masks’. In his psychological and sociological research, Gergen concludes that people do not have a coherent sense of identity and need masks to be happy, healthy, and successful in society. I agree with Gergen because different situations call for different personalities; such as acting professional for a job interview, being lively with friends, or maintaining a…

The Fox and Rabbit Game: Predator – Prey Simulation By: Erick Chung Lab Partners: Bryan Oh, Justin Jang, Wilmer Roca 6/6/17 Introduction Objective: The objective of this lab is to discover and understand how predator-prey interactions affect population size. Hypothesis: If were to model the predator-prey relationship for 35 generations, then we would see that the relationship is inverse. Results Predator-Prey Simulation Data Qualitative Observations: The fox…

The current field of research into the cause of the downfall of the knightly class generally agrees that it was primarily a result of the introduction of gunpowder weaponry, but some recent scholarship suggests otherwise. Up through the present, historians have believed that the gunpowder revolution in military technology predominantly caused the knightly class in Europe to disappear, because unlike previous ranged weapons developments, firearms took no skill to operate and had the power to…

random school items to fall out. At the same time, the narrator describes how the curriculum taught in schools is compiled of various ideas that have been applied in somewhat of a random way. In shaking the book, this signals to the audience the randomness of information that falls into students’ laps, rather than information geared towards making successful individuals in current day fields and vocations. Another part that stood out was the usage of the rocket shooting out of the building and…

“On Human Nature” Refutation David Hull’s “On Human Nature” is an article written to oppose human nature. Specifically, it challenges human evolution as the cause of universality/commonality of human traits. The case made in the article utilizes the logic behind Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection: evolutionary changes come via the generation of variation in each generation and differential survival of individuals with different combinations of these varying traits. The central…