Re: Lottery tickets

From: Jim McGinn (jimmcginn_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/20/05 

Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 16:41:28 -0500 (EST)

Perplexed in Peoria wrote:
> Are winning lottery tickets different from lottery
> tickets that don't win in terms of their causative
> properties? Yes, No.

Yes.

> If they are different in terms of their causative
> properties what is the PROXIMATE mechanism by which
> they produce this difference is causative properties?

It is their numbers on the ticket and the arrangement
thereof that cause lottery officials to deposit large
sums in the holder's bank account when the ticket is
presented to the them.

> I mean, do tickets somehow know whether or not they are
> winning and act accordingly? How do they know this?

The ticket does not know but the holder can know
by listening to the media to see if the numbers
match.

> If they are not different in terms of their causative
> properties then why even bother to distinguish between
> them?

Not applicable.

> (Genes that are IBD differ from non-IBD genes in an
> odd way. They happen to **receive** more altruism
> under kin selection than do the non-IBD genes. Or,
> rather, they inhabit Dawkins vehicles that receive
> more altruism. Though they do nothing to "cause"
> this good luck.)

I think your thinking is flawed unless you can
answer how it is that the other non-IBD genes
that are contained in the same organism, the
same Dawkinsian vehicle, are excluded from the
benefits of this good luck?

(Note that I actually answered your questions.
Yourself, Joe, William, JE, and many others have
failed to answer my questions.)

Jim

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