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Coincidence

September 19, 2005 at 8:58 am · Filed under Thinking

Is it just coincidence? I always ask myself that. Constantly calculating the variables, mapping out patterns. Determining accident versus arranged. No it must be a coincidence but then this must mean something. Is it a coincidence that she knew him through a brother of a friend? Was this rain meant for me? etc.
I’m writing this and my head starts to hurt, thinking about random versus predetermined. It winds my mind…I try to remain on the surface. Then I read this article Wired News article: My IPod for a Random Playlist. Does it seem like your playlist is not really random? I feel like that…I feel like it’s choosy with the artists it picks. But I still always hit shuffle…like surprises.

The problem, it turns out, isn’t that the programs aren’t randomizing my playlists. They are. According to Jeff Lait, a mathematician and author of randomm3u, it’s what’s happening between my ears, specifically, in my expectations of what it means for something to be random.
To illustrate his point, Lait referred to a phenomenon statisticians call the birthday paradox. Roughly stated, it holds that if there are 23 randomly selected people in a room, there is a better than 50-50 chance that at least two of them will have the same birthday. The point: Mathematical randomness often contradicts our intuitive expectations of randomness.

Is it my expectations of randomness that make me feel unfulfilled by my player’s shuffle or is it that I constantly anticipate a non-random pattern to emerge. In the same way that I try to connect events, people, words constantly. It cannot ever appear random because I will not let it. So why do I do that? What benefit exists in this seemingly wired in mechanism? I suppose the ability to find patterns and connections is important to learning, creating, solving. Even if it works overtime and the connections are not always there, at least the mind is trying. The important being that it does not try to fabricate a nonexistant connection Another benefit is that it give me reason. Reason is important for survival.

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