Philosophy Wire: Random funding… Random cosmos…

Scientists have used the economic theory of contests to illustrate how the competitive grant-application system has made the pursuit of research funding inefficient and unsustainable - and that alternative methods, such as a partial lottery to award grants, could relieve pressure on professors and free up time for research. [1] After knowing everything, we will learn that there was nothing to learn at the end. Too much information only leads to us appreciating the silence of ignorance. Too many decisions only makes up know that non-deciding is the best way forward. Think carefully. Plan everything. Watch the world go around. Relax. The dices have already been rolled. And you already know the result…

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Luck... Chance... Gods...

Its mostly luck, which determined the success of a person in life, according to a new research. [1] It is mostly luck which determined reproductive success. [2] Its mostly luck which determines the survivability of a species. [3]

In a world of chance, we insist on believing that it is us who determine our future. In a world dominated by random events, we keep insisting that it is us who make things happen. We know that there is Logos governing the universe. Because we are part of it. We feel it constantly. We have just misjudged what is the source of that Logos.

It is not logos within us.
It is logos transcending the cosmos.

Stay humble and you will see.
You cannot control anything.
Because you are everything...