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weird (adj.)

c. 1400,

• "having power to control fate", from wierd (n.), from Old English wyrd "fate, chance, fortune; destiny; the Fates," literally "that which comes,"

• from Proto-Germanic wurthiz (cognates: Old Saxon wurd, Old High German wurt "fate," Old Norse urðr "fate, one of the three Norns"),

• from PIE wert- "to turn, to wind," (cognates: German werden, Old English weorðan "to become"),

• from root wer- (3) "to turn, bend" (see versus).

• For sense development from "turning" to "becoming," compare phrase turn into "become."

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Othering and randomness (www.reddit.com)

submitted 1 year ago by syncretik to c/weirdway

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I'd like to hear your perspectives on randomness. This question has implications for the understanding of othering.

Is true randomness possible?

If not, this would be a limitation of mind.

If so, it also feels like a limitation of mind (inability to predict/know the outcome of an event).

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[–] syncretik 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Randomness is ignore-ance in perception. Ie, that which is not consciously awareof, but only an appearance not an actuality. That said, all potential states of experience exist simultaneously and all operational iterative transformations between states also exist, so there isn't a hard determinism either. The choice of operational transformation sequences is just unconscious.

Originally commented by u/CreateCoincidence on 2021-12-07 16:56:12 (hnk9awf)

[–] syncretik 1 points 1 year ago

It can be unconscious. There are the same number of experiences where it is conscious as there are where it isn't.

Originally commented by u/Scew on 2021-12-15 01:39:06 (hoijq1t)