Steve, I read one of the links you provided to Mike. The other failed to open anything. The argument in the book is like I say: when probability rules, tossing a coin a million times will give you approximately 500,000 heads and 500,000 tails. That means there is still a law (of probability), and it is well addressed in the book you refer to. If chaos rules, you are not sure whether you will get 1 head and 999,999 tails or something like that. That is the difference between rules and no rules, or deterministic (in a probability way) and completely chaotic. Anthony
--- On Mon, 4/4/11, SteveW <[email protected]> wrote: From: SteveW <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Zen] Why bother with Zazen? Better a Roulette To: [email protected] Date: Monday, 4 April, 2011, 10:57 AM --- In [email protected], Anthony Wu <wuasg@...> wrote: > > Steve, > Â > Probabalistically determined is still deterministic by probability. If you > toss a coin a million times, the probabality shows you close to 500,000 heads > and 500,000 tails. If it is completely chaotic, you may get 699,999 heads and > 300,001 tails, or a 999,999 to 1 ratio. > > So there are still rules and laws, though more complex. > Â > Anthony > > Anthony, please read that article I posted to Mike. It addresses this very > well. Steve
