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Karma & Humans - Who controls whom? (Karma Series - Part 1)

After a long time, I was going on a trip to a few temples in South India along with my family. To kill time during travel, we started talking about random topics. Quite a lot of them were really thought provoking. I would like to post one such very interesting topic here –  “Are you controlled by karma/fate OR do you have the power to change your karma/fate?” Let us validate each argument separately. In India, we have always believed in karma as concept wherein the good & bad deeds done in one’s previous life(s) will have a direct bearing on the subsequent life(s). We are controlled by karma/fate: Now we start by assuming that we are controlled by karma/fate. Hence, when a person is born, his fate is already decided. The decision each person takes in his/her life will make sure that the person is moving on the track towards this “intended fate”. This would mean all good deeds & bad deeds that a person would do are already pre-decided so that he achieves...

Randomness - Part 2

In this article, we continue on from where we left.... We concluded in part 1 by saying that since atmospheric events are truly random, RNG's which use them would indeed produce random numbers. Or does it??? Read on... Let us again start with the most simplest of the physical events - tossing of a coin. We can only be sure that the probability of both a head and tail is equal and is half. We can not even tell the number of heads or tails we would get by tossing a coin 100 times(though we could say with certain confidence level say 90% that there would be 40 to 60 heads approximately, as your confidence level increases the range also increases. So for saying with 100% confidence, we would have to include the complete range - 0 to 100) leave alone the exact sequence of heads and tails. Now let us move further. What if i say the mass of the coin is 1 gram? Does it make any difference to what we have talked till now? Answer: YES it does. This is a very ...