Randomness

One day after coming back from a family vacation I, Kerri Benard, am on my way to softball practice. I have missed to days of practice and my friend Laura says that the new coach has been working them hard. As I show up to practice I see all my friends and I run over and give them hugs. "I missed you guys so much!" I exclaimed, But before they could answer a new girl walked up. I had no idea who it was so I just stayed quiet. They were all huddled up laughing and I was still confused as to who…

Pi is an irritating and unique number for the mathematician who, above all academics, desires certainty and factuality. It irritates because it defies the scientist’s longing for certainty. At the same time it fascinates because of its “infinite randomness”. Pi, as a mathematical formula, functions both as a logical equation and as a sort of mystical symbol. The novel itself seeks to strike that same sort of “irritating but fascinating” balance of the title character’s name.…

The game Every Day the Same Dream is an artistically narrative game by Molleindustria. Although the narration may not be the game’s strongest point, it still plays a significant role in the representation of the game. One of the strong qualities of video games is the ability to give players the power and freedom to affect the story by making intriguing choices. In many of the games, the decisions a player makes could affect the ending in many ways such as providing a different cut-scene compared…

that are not controlled by laws of nature. According to libertarian past occasions have no immediate effect on current good choice making. Libertarians do not want to say that freedom is an uncaused action. Saying that would create freedom with randomness. A Threatens for libertarian is that, some actions seems unfree and now freedom appear to require…

degrees of goodness in every occasion. On the one hand, if we accept (i), freedom is meaningless because evil is logically inconsistent with God’s omnipotence and omnibenevolence. On the other hand, if we accept (ii), freedom is meaningless because randomness is logically inconsistent with our valuing of things as supremely good. This is Mackie’s paradox of omnipotence—both (i) and (ii) indicate that God’s omnipotence is limited, and thus inconsistent with the theists notion of freedom, evil,…

I have one question based on the response to the objection from finite perception of the infinite. On what view of human nature (i.e., humanist?) is the response based? In chapter 8, Kronen and Reitan continue to argue against the argument from freedom (AF) by focusing on its first premise (AF1), which holds that ‘God cannot guarantee the salvation of all without overriding the unregenerate’s freedom; a claim Kronen and Reitan of course reject. Moreover, Kronen and Reitan provide a more precise…

Serendipity “The occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way” is the dictionary definition of serendipity. Many people’s lives are changed for the better because of serendipitous moments. For example, a chance meeting in a coffee shop could find you face to face with your true love. Being in the right place at the right time can change the course of one’s life. However, being in the wrong place at the wrong time can create a life of chaos, or even the tragic, and…

In many different societies we all contain social norms. Fundamentally, social norms are defined as “the rules of behavior that are considered acceptable in a group or society” (YourDictionary). In other words, norms are the written or unwritten rules of behavior that we follow in everyday life. Some norms could be an effortless gesture such as “holding a door for an individual”. But other social norms are more strictly held to in certain situations than in others; for instance, slapping a…

Every choice leads to a different reality and the conglomeration of all one’s choices is what determines his person. Both “Existentialism 101” and “The Guest” promote the philosophy of existentialism whereby it is believed that humans are both cursed and blessed with the ability to make choices and think into the future. Consequently, there are three general principles of existentialism: the first suggests that man should act upon no other than his morality, the second realizes that man is…

. Hawking says that there was a time when everything in the universe were connected to each other and the density of the universe was infinite, which according to the “general theory of relativity…predicts that there” was “a singular point in the universe” [3]. Before big bang, nothing existed. Energy and time were created later. This theory is in coherence with the scientific method. If we invest some thinking to find some evidences that support the existence of god, we can find a few…