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The Dodo - Episode Twelve
In this thought-provoking episode of 'The Dodo,' Emily and Evan grapple with the philosophical implications of a simple coin flip, exploring the intricate dance between chance and determinis...
The Dodo - Episode Twelve
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Rusty Quill presents
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Emily and Evan stood in the hallway of the Duchess Hotel as Emily looked to coin with their thumb
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to decide whether to chase after a equally elusive lighthouse or black pond monster
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It may seem simple solution, a coin flip, but consider this
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A flip, long forth from forefinger, fashion from forged ferris finer, layering briefly or falling
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an ostensibly ordinary operation to off overlooked yet obstinately overflowing,
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ontological import. That solitary spin that singular spiral summons the entire system of sequential structures,
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from the mechanistic to the metaphysical, but it was stochastic, sublime.
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The act appears arbitrary and idle amusement for the apathetic yet hidden within that humble hurl is a helical hierarchy of hard determinism,
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eye entropy hidden harmonics and hysterical hypothesis.
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Let us begin beneath beneath the binary bluff of heads or tails as a bedrock of ballistic ballet,
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angular acceleration, atmosphere concatenuation, asymmetric articulation, axial alignment, and assorted air-stream anomalies.
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I'll conspire to complicate what should be but never is, a clean, coin, toss.
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Each launch is laden with latent leverage, the slightest skew, the smallest spasm, the softest sigh in the surrounding space can re-script the resolution.
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A coin is no canvas of chance, but a cathedral of condition crowded with variables crammed vectors chartered by classical causality yet choreographed by chaos.
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Still, statisticians stiff-colored slide-rool-slinging seekers of symmetry stepped solemnly onto the stage and suggest a simplified schema,
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an idealized instrument, a pristine process, a perfect probability partition between two pure possibilities, less arises the Bernoulli binary.
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A doctrine so decorous it disguises its deceptions. 5050, they say, as if fate were fairs of hands were honest, as if surfaces set flat, as if symmetry were sacrosanct, but no.
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Flip frequencies falter, outcomes orbit around unseen asymmetries, even now we find evidence that systemic skew, a starting face, the spin-strength, the surface shape all subtly swaying, the sovereigns, sentence.
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Enter entropy, not metaphor, but measure, entropy estimates expectation encapsulates uncertainty in numerates at systemic emptiness, a fair flip flings one full bid into the blackness of bias when belches less.
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Compress the coins out comes in compressive cosmos, predicted perfectly in entropy evaporates, misjudged it monstrously, and the cobalt back lever spectra looms, punishing misplaced probabilities with lug-like lachines.
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And so we encode, extractors a limited error, purging partiality through paired pattern purification, while newments for its virtuous vetoing of tainted twins, yet even extraction exhausts itself, entropy's essence is insufficient.
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What looks like luck may lag legitimacy, one must model, must measure, must marshal martingales, must monitor maximum likelihoods, must manage metastable mixtures of truth and temptation.
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Meanwhile, the Bayesian's brewed, with brows bent beneath brims they bring belief into the balance.
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Prior's postulated, posterior's predicted proportions perpetually pruned by the knife of experience, here, exchangeability, and thrones uncertainty.
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One toss teaches the next, one face reshapes the framework. Subjectivity and structure sit side by side, each posterior polished portrait of the buyer's patience.
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Games can gather two, and grim games of gain and gamut mix strategies mask motives. The coin becomes a cloak, a cover, a calculated curtain no longer an arbiter.
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It is now a tactical talisman, a tool to thwart the thoroughbred thinker, a signal scrambler, slotted into systems. We're seeing is losing.
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Wars are wagered on it, duels delayed by it, parliaments, parrowed, under its purview.
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Elsewhere's physicist flex, not merely Newtonians mind you, though they remain reverent of restitution and rotation, but quantum queerists questioning whether each collapse of copper, cascades, and accountless copies.
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In efforts to state, every toss is a bifurcation, in one world, tripe, in another tragedy, in a third the coin stands eternally, on edge, neither resolving, nor relenting.
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Branching breeds breadth, billions of bifurcated biographies blooming from one base behavior, and always always causality creeps.
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This flip finalizes futures, the face that falls for closes fates. A tournament is tilted, a child is chosen, a verdict once veiled, becomes visible.
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From a single centripetal ceremony, civilizations crash or cultivate, the past stays fixed, the future flutters, thus from one meager metallic motion, the manifold mutates.
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What began as sport is now scripture, what seemed to trifle is transfigured into testament, the coin flip is cathedral, crucible, and curse.
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It is a ceremony of constraint, a calculus of chaos, a carrier of consequence, it is the minimum unit of fate, the monad, of randomness, the mirror, in which we glimpse both determinisms discipline and disorder's dominion.
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What commences casual competition, how common is encodified creed, but once carried the character of careless choices coalesced.
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Covertly, completely into a consecrated construct, a compendium of cause and consequence, a clandestine calculus conducted beneath cognition, or the coin.
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No longer crude or commonplace, compels comprehension of complex contingencies, cloaking certainties and concealment, channeling chaos through ceremony, and crystallizing within its circular course the complete contradiction of cosmic constraints ceaseless contingency.
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Thus descends the doctrine, what to find definition that delivers dogmas, the dis-displace from diversion becomes a divisive determinative decree, drawing destinies down divergent directions, delineating dualities, dissolving doubt, dragging deliberation in domains of disorder, what decision disguised design, dated disorients deduction, and directed derivation, dances with disarray, the deterministic draped in distortion, declared by a delimiter that dictates without discussion diverging developments detached from deliberate discretion.
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Meanwhile, meaning metastasizes, the moment microscopic materializes into monument, a mechanism of metaphysical magnitude, mapping multiplicities, modifying memory, manifesting movement, mutability, and moral mark, where in mere motion morphs and demandate mimicking mythos, mirroring mortality, mandating mystery where method was missing, and marking with mute magnificence, the monstrous machinery by which minutia manufacture monarchs or martyrs.
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Everything extends, each event echoes every element in twines evolving endlessly, elaborating entanglements, erecting extravagant edifices, engineering emergent enigmas, enveloping existence and exquisite epistemological embroidery, exacting elusive effervescent, even ethics evaporates, eclipse by escalating error in expectations erode, evidentiary equilibria extinguished by errant executions engineered elsewhere, emphasizing entropy, eclipsing essence, ending elegance.
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All of which, Emily thwarted, for when the coin, tumbling in the air, landed in her palm, she quickly defied the universe and flipped her right palm over to the top of her furry left hand and then covered the coin, she gave Evan a wink.
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You call it Evan, heads or tails.
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You call it Evan, heads or tails.
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You call it Evan, heads or tails.
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You call it Evan, heads or tails.
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You call it Evan, heads or tails.