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The Written Unknown VII: Chance as a Cultural Language | Fate, Randomness, Divination, Gero, Play & the Psychology of Meaning
Why do human beings keep finding meaning in random events even when they insist they do not believe in fate?
Why can a shuffled card, a roll of the dice, a repeated number, a coin toss, or a strangely timed coincidence suddenly feel significant?
Does a meaningful response to chance require us to believe that the universe deliberately sent a message?
Or is something subtler happening?
In The Written Unknown VII, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey returns to his book Chance as a Cultural Language: Toward a New Vocabulary of Play, Meaning, and Fate and the question that made the book necessary:
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