Does the many worlds interpretations explain luck?
I can't count how many times I have thought something bad was about to take place to only have it come true. These are mostly little things like bad outcomes in video and card games, but can science explain this?
I have heard about how poker must be more of a game of skill than luck due to the fact that the same people do well at the poker table. One of the more popular poker shows on television mentions this "fact". Could it be that these people create their own "luck" by believing that they will win or get the card they need?
I have watched poker and seen these top tier players get "lucky" time and time again by hitting the card they needed. Yet I have almost never had this same lucky event happen to me. Yes, I realize that it is edited to only show you these lucky moments because most hands are boring. It still means it happens to them and while I'm sure they have played a lot more hands than I have, statistically speaking, it should have happened to me by now as well.
However, I always believe I will NOT get the card I need. In the game "Magic: the Gathering", you create a deck of 60 cards and "land" cards are what power the spells you cast. A deck will usually contain 22 to 24 land cards. If a deck of 60 cards contains 22 lands, what are the odds that you will draw 12 lands off the top of the deck after drawing a hand of 7 cards? How about having this happen 2 more times in a row?
That scenario happened to me in the last tournament I ever played. I quit playing that day. My "luck" was just too bad. But how can that be? How can I _ALWAYS_ get either too many or not enough lands while my opponent never has this happen to them?
I realize a lot of people think they have bad luck only to have perfectly average luck over time. I promise you this is not the case with me. 99.9% of my games were ending with me being "mana screwed" or "mana flooded" (too many or too few lands) and ruined the game for me.
Today I play and while this will start to still happen, I can seemingly make it stop now. How could I possibly change my "luck"? I realize what I am doing, thinking I'm going to get screwed every game and starting thinking more positively. By doing that I seem to be able to change my "luck" and can now play and enjoy the game (and I do quite well now).
Seems like science fiction and most would still call this all coincidence. I am a skeptic in just about everything, but I am forced to believe something is happening here, but I require a scientific explanation. Enter the "many worlds interpretation".
Could it possibly be that I am able to change the outcome of unknown events, at least minor ones, with my mind? Can it be that I am "switching" to another "world", one where I am getting the lands/cards I need by merely believing that I will? Doubt enters my mind and prevents it from happening too often, but I no longer believe that I will draw "nothing but lands" every game and this no longer happens.
I am really starting to believe that luck can be explained via the many worlds interpretation. I do not know if you could change anything major, but I do believe that this scientifically explains why some people truly believe that thinking positive really works.
I can't count how many times I have thought something bad was about to take place to only have it come true. These are mostly little things like bad outcomes in video and card games, but can science explain this?
I have heard about how poker must be more of a game of skill than luck due to the fact that the same people do well at the poker table. One of the more popular poker shows on television mentions this "fact". Could it be that these people create their own "luck" by believing that they will win or get the card they need?
I have watched poker and seen these top tier players get "lucky" time and time again by hitting the card they needed. Yet I have almost never had this same lucky event happen to me. Yes, I realize that it is edited to only show you these lucky moments because most hands are boring. It still means it happens to them and while I'm sure they have played a lot more hands than I have, statistically speaking, it should have happened to me by now as well.
However, I always believe I will NOT get the card I need. In the game "Magic: the Gathering", you create a deck of 60 cards and "land" cards are what power the spells you cast. A deck will usually contain 22 to 24 land cards. If a deck of 60 cards contains 22 lands, what are the odds that you will draw 12 lands off the top of the deck after drawing a hand of 7 cards? How about having this happen 2 more times in a row?
That scenario happened to me in the last tournament I ever played. I quit playing that day. My "luck" was just too bad. But how can that be? How can I _ALWAYS_ get either too many or not enough lands while my opponent never has this happen to them?
I realize a lot of people think they have bad luck only to have perfectly average luck over time. I promise you this is not the case with me. 99.9% of my games were ending with me being "mana screwed" or "mana flooded" (too many or too few lands) and ruined the game for me.
Today I play and while this will start to still happen, I can seemingly make it stop now. How could I possibly change my "luck"? I realize what I am doing, thinking I'm going to get screwed every game and starting thinking more positively. By doing that I seem to be able to change my "luck" and can now play and enjoy the game (and I do quite well now).
Seems like science fiction and most would still call this all coincidence. I am a skeptic in just about everything, but I am forced to believe something is happening here, but I require a scientific explanation. Enter the "many worlds interpretation".
Could it possibly be that I am able to change the outcome of unknown events, at least minor ones, with my mind? Can it be that I am "switching" to another "world", one where I am getting the lands/cards I need by merely believing that I will? Doubt enters my mind and prevents it from happening too often, but I no longer believe that I will draw "nothing but lands" every game and this no longer happens.
I am really starting to believe that luck can be explained via the many worlds interpretation. I do not know if you could change anything major, but I do believe that this scientifically explains why some people truly believe that thinking positive really works.
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