I am Not a Luddite

Precision can be a mean as well as an end of determinism, and determinism is the modus operandi of science. The great Albert Einstein was a champion of determinism (and his beloved classical physics) when he proclaimed “God does not play dice!”

So I am nervous about declaring determinism a major menace to good decision-making, but the truth – in the form of caution -- must be told.

Like everybody else, I am all for the precision, the truth and the determinism, and all the usual good stuffs that go with it, but not when they were applied prematurely.

Haven’t we have acted as if the earth is flat, although it is not when we examined it precisely later on? When we say that the earth is flat, we are roughly correct, not wrong, for otherwise we wouldn’t be able to walk on it. Two parallel lines meet in the distance, and when we walk towards the point of convergence, we found out that truly parallel lines never do meet. There’s another convergence point ahead of us. We live and learn. And the mean we do it with is the method of successive approximation.

The principle of RC to PC that I have been referring to is phrased a bit awkwardly, but the meaning in some deep sense is the same as “successive approximation.”

I am only saying that in the real world the probabilities are not with you if the determinism is your only companion.

Determinism works only if you are the sole scriptwriter of the whole play.

Let your imagination play!