Benjamin Cain
1 min readJan 31, 2024

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Indeed, I don't want to project mentality onto nature's creativity. And the law of large numbers wouldn't be sufficient to predict the order that naturally emerges.

The point I was aiming for is that in so far as pure wildness is creative, and that creativity has inherent aesthetic properties, those properties will emerge over many wild trials, amounting to an average that appears even in samples, according to the law of large numbers. So the law says that samples will eventually converge on the overall theoretical average--assuming there's some prior order there for a theory to uncover. In the case of wildness, that prior order is aesthetic since I'm considering the compound concept of sheer wild creativity.

But I regard this as a very difficult atheistic problem, perhaps the hardest one there is, the fathoming of nature's godless creativity. So you've put your finger on the key question. Of course, I'm still thinking about all of this, and there's lots more to consider. Indeed, I've already written a follow-up article, which will be coming out in a week or so.

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Benjamin Cain
Benjamin Cain

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