Monk Of Reason
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From a personal perspective there is usually a need or at the very least high likelyhood that one attempts to make sense of the world around them only from their own perspective. While there are truely random and chance driven thigns in this life its not usually so simple.
Luck and to a degree the colloquial term "chance" doesn't actually have anything to do with a kind of random outcome. What it really is, however, is the inability of our minds to recognize, obtain and process the impossibly high number of factors that are usually beyond any one person's control. If I throw out dice onto a table without any skill or intent to land it in a certain way one would usually agree that the dice roll was random. However this is actually not true in the real meaning of the term random. Once the dice leaves my hands it is already determined how they will land. If I knew the exact velocity, direction, rotation, distance ect I could mathmatically calculate how it would hit the table. And then if I knew how elasticity of both the dice and the table and I could calculate the exact force that it wold be put on the dice I could then extrapolate how it would bounce. Then rinse and repeate until I could determine mathmatically where they will end up.
If I had acess to the information needed I could always know what it would land on. The reverse is also true that if I could predict exactly at what speed/direction/distance from the table I let go of the dice I could choose my roll.
And this is how we live our lives. We live our lives with such limited information that things seem random. Cognition throws a bit of a wrench into everything but there is a high probability that what we "decide" is determiend by factors beyond our control. Though we can't know for sure. However we do know that there are factors that have major roles in our decision making. These factors can be changed and thus our mind's changed.
So when you say "luck" is the determining factor I would say no. We have the cognitive ability to function in life but only so much information to do so with. Thus it gives us the illusion of luck.
Luck and to a degree the colloquial term "chance" doesn't actually have anything to do with a kind of random outcome. What it really is, however, is the inability of our minds to recognize, obtain and process the impossibly high number of factors that are usually beyond any one person's control. If I throw out dice onto a table without any skill or intent to land it in a certain way one would usually agree that the dice roll was random. However this is actually not true in the real meaning of the term random. Once the dice leaves my hands it is already determined how they will land. If I knew the exact velocity, direction, rotation, distance ect I could mathmatically calculate how it would hit the table. And then if I knew how elasticity of both the dice and the table and I could calculate the exact force that it wold be put on the dice I could then extrapolate how it would bounce. Then rinse and repeate until I could determine mathmatically where they will end up.
If I had acess to the information needed I could always know what it would land on. The reverse is also true that if I could predict exactly at what speed/direction/distance from the table I let go of the dice I could choose my roll.
And this is how we live our lives. We live our lives with such limited information that things seem random. Cognition throws a bit of a wrench into everything but there is a high probability that what we "decide" is determiend by factors beyond our control. Though we can't know for sure. However we do know that there are factors that have major roles in our decision making. These factors can be changed and thus our mind's changed.
So when you say "luck" is the determining factor I would say no. We have the cognitive ability to function in life but only so much information to do so with. Thus it gives us the illusion of luck.
