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The Plato Project: Ion Saliu's essay on Philosopy & Gambling<
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Return To Socrates: Ideas, Philosophy, Science,
Gambling, Software
By Ion Saliu, Thinker At-Large

The content of this site is inspired by Socrates, the 
wisest of the mortals and gods ever.   I worship no 
gods here, nor do I worship humans. I only draw your 
attention to Socrates' dialectical method: Everything 
is a unity of two opposites. At the very beginning of 
the end there is the very end of the beginning: 
Infinity and Nothingness. Expansion created by the 
Big-Bang followed by Implosion created by the Big-Crunch 
and so on for ever and never. If A is legitimate, non-A 
must have legitimacy as well. For there is no logical 
foundation for the expression only A is legitimate; or, 
only Opposite-A is legitimate. 

I synthesize these statements in the Fundamental 
Formula of Philosophy (FF0):

                 Creation = Destruction

There are no principles (forces, in terms of physics) above 
or more general than Creation and Destruction. The creation 
of creation is still creation; the destruction of destruction 
is still destruction. At the next lower level, there is the 
unity of the opposites Energy and Matter. Matter represents 
relatively static states of Energy. We may write the next 
lower level Fundamental Formula (FF1) as: 

                           E*D = M*L 
        (Energy Times Darkness = Matter Times Light).

• I try to illustrate all this briefly via the science of 
  gambling and snippets of computational psychology, 
  philosophy. For gambling reflects so well the Socratic 
  dichotomy: win and loss expressed in marvelous numeric 
  relations. Very much as in life. C'est la vie... 

Please read on, for you will discover a mighty formula 
that can make a difference to your bottom line (Gambling 
Formula). While on this subject, get yourself a free 
winning lotto system or strategy as well. The page also 
features the best lotto and lottery numbers generator. 
The combinations generated are highly optimized.

In 2003 (3 WE) the casinos obstructed me. They asked me 
to stop playing while using my systems. • Read on how 
some try to impose a ban on reason, science, and 
intelligence. (“The Science of Winning And The Law”, 
also accessible from the forum.)
   
We follow next our dichotomy in human life. Not to shock 
anyone, I represent here the following paradigm: Humans 
as living computers (Computational Psychology). Frankly, 
the most truthful definition of humans is (you heard it 
first here, do not blame anyone else): humans are 
computing beasts.

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