A Roll of the dice?

Question

Does anybody believe Life is something like that?

I mean after all, somebody can study for years to learn the Lotto and never win, where somebody else can just walk in, pick some random numbes and win.

Do you do the same thing for the same purpose and get different results or does it all come out the same exact way every time?

You can do things and apply yourself, but does that mean it will come out exactly as planned?

Answer 1

Of course not, but then agian sometimes yes. Things not coming out as planned though sometimes is the best thing. Sometimes it can trun out worse but you learn from that and other times it can come out even better then you could have dreamed. who really knows, maybe life is like Dark City and yesterday we were all rich and the 'others' changed our memories so we think this is all there is.... who knows

Answer 2

I don't think things always turn out as planned. Sometimes the timing just isn't right, I guess. I do believe that the harder you work towards achieving your goal the better your chance of getting what you want. At the same time, when things don't work out as we planned it seems that something else comes along instead and a lot of times it's even better than what we had hoped for. We need to be open to change and explore all the options out there. Being a flexible person and being able to go with the flow really helps to get through some of these changes. Life is always interesting and we never know what may happen next.

Answer 3

Definitely a 'dimension' of life is something like a roll of the dice. But another dimension is quite precisely deterministic. For about 85 years now physics has been trying to formulate a mathematics powerful enough to describe the gap between the two. Sir Roger Penrose of England has called this a 'gap in physics knowledge.'

But it is this same gap - the region where quantum mechanics and classical Newtonian physics meet - that is also the birthplace of consciousness. This implies that one dimension of consciousness is non-deterministic, probabilistic and is in part influenced by Heisenberg's famous Uncertainty Principle. The uncertainty Principle forbids strict determinism in favor of probability distributions as the only way to predict and even define various outcomes.

On the other hand there are whole areas of life that are strictly regulated by cause and effect. Your question really is how do the two domains meet? They meet in human experience and other orders of activity on Earth in a way that is probably both/and, not either/or.

By prudent planning according to the laws of cause and effect we can prevent excessive uncertainty or reduce the magnitude or spread of the probability distribution. We can, so to speak, contain the element of chance in a time-space frame that is more certain. But in the last analysis we cannot completely eliminate all uncertainty or all probability. When Einstein protested that "God does not play dice" it was only a protest. He gradually came round to accepting the implications of Heisenberg's relation.

What makes conscious existence rich is the fact that we are not mere pre-determined automatons. We breathe with the infinite, with non-local connecting functions, with a measure of uncertainty and probability - and so we are alive. There is suspense. We are kept reverent.

Some have more 'luck' than others in certain areas and less luck than others in other areas because of the richness and variety of overlapping probability distributions.

Hunches, desire, pattern, intuition can help to tune into where your 'luck' lies.

So, good luck. And your question is obviously fundamental.

B. Lyons

Answer 4

Life to some is a roll of the dice if casinos are your ultimate goal. Otherwise life if chalked out properly offers an equal oppurtunity probability & u should know what to grab at.

Answer 5

A good part of life is truly spontaneous but we can definitely improve the odds of which direction ours is going by what and how much we pursue where we want it to go. I do believe in a certain "law of magnetism" that events do seem to bend in favor of what we put our focus towards. That where we put our faith (not the religious kind) has an uncanny tendency to expand in the direction we're striving towards. We pursue good stuff and good stuff seams to happen more. We pursue crummy stuff, crummy stuff happens more. Nothing is etched in stone but we can certainly influence a lot of "randomness". Good luck on the lottery stuff though.

Answer 6

Simply rolling of the dice is uncertain but the 'Roll' is certainly to ruin people who wish to win by mere gamble. Same way in life those who want to gain anything without merit won't succeed.

Answer 7

life depends on dumb luck. one day ur fine the next ur ded or worse.and u might have done absulutely nothing to deserve it.

Answer 8

It depends on whose plan you are talking about...you or a higher power who has their own plan for you.