Poetic justice, a metaphysical reality?
We use the term ‘chance’ a lot without going much into what that means [apart from math of course]. I often notice chance occurrences in innocuous events and there seams to be a pattern, though when dealing with improbability it’s virtually impossibly to prove ~ maybe.
I was watching a clip show where a tree fell as if by an unseen hand, and a branch landed upon a glass table when it seamed though it could have gone virtually anywhere. It made me think of how when you fry an egg and it occasionally splatters, in often goes in your eye ~ as if it meant it.
Earlier I was watching the FA cup [football] wherein hull scored a ‘fortuitous’ first goal, then they scored a simply well hit goal. Arsenal then scored a well hit goal followed by a fortuitous one, and my first thought was “that must have been poetic justice”.
Cut a long story short; on these and many other occasions it appears to me that something was going on? I imagined there to be a number of possible outcomes for the first two [above] examples, all of which except the one which actually occurred would not have spurred any notion of chance being anything but pure chance ~ whatever that means. However, the very fact that the most ‘provocative event/occurrence’ was the one that occurred, got me thinking…
could it sometimes be that where there are a given set of potential outcomes, yet one stands out from the rest as being greater in potential effect. Perhaps that makes the event more likely to occur simply because it belongs to a greater string of potential events? ‘chance’ would take the event containing more potential over those containing less perhaps?
edit;
Hull done well to get to the FA cup final, arsenal would have done very badly if they had lost. This may have placed more impetus upon arsenal winning and requiring their equal proportion of ‘luck’.
When we consider that strings of events across the universe are being ‘calculated’ at the quantum level, perhaps sometimes this makes macroscopic equivalents of those paths to become manifest. If probability can decide single events, there is no reason in my mind why it cant be doing that many times i.e. in strings of events. After all, masses of events are occurring in this way at the quantum and universe level, and as seen from that perspective [ground up] there would be disparate sets of events ergo, strings!
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