Consider that one tossed a very very large number of dice on the table
and then examines the pattern of digits in groups of 100 each.
Consistent with statistical expectations one finds a set with all
sevens. A certain breed of philsopher says "I told you that things
could self organize." The rejoinder from another phisopher is that
"No, if you look at a large enough set you will find some unusual
examples of organization but nothing all that profound."
With further analysis and in the entire large set of dice one finally
finds the value of pi to 100 decimal places. No statistical analysis
can explain such a thing (whoe probability is a number like 10^-42) and
further this number just happens to have all of the dice lined up and
the room light just happens to shine on them to make them apparent and
many many other improbable things are found with this set of 100 dice.
One philsopher says "No intelligent being existed before the dice
THEREFORE there is some self organizing principle behind this we just
have to find it." Another says "No known or even projected or
postulated physical principle can be explain this becuase of the
vanishingly small joint probabilities of the number and the lights and
etc and etc to do with this set THEREFORE there must be some
intelligence who "monkeyed with the universe."
You decide.
Bert M.
(Should it be 'dice" or"die.")
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