In tech circles, serendipity has gotten reductively redefined as high probability of positive human interactions in dense urban areas. That’s explainable by regular statistics. Serendipity is surprising (greater than model-predicted) luck without obvious cause.
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Ah right that’s what the second half of my statement was getting at( intensity of reaction). Eg in Bali you could serendipitously meet tonnes of “digital nomads” in the trivial sense but the intensity of reaction is also trivial, little harmless burps and farts
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Intensity of reaction on the other hand I feel is extremely dependent on the person, and could be triggered by anything from meeting a family of otters in the park to suddenly realizing that a water fountain’s parabola can be articulated as the intersection of a cone and a plane?
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1/I think serendipity carries the connotation of some sort of surprise which, subjectively (& sometimes inter-subjectively), appears "agentic" or "directed" or "telelogic" or "purposeful," as if a human hand capable of bending the laws of nature were involved. I suspect it
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2/relates to a temporary confusion between the physical causation system, and the social reasoning system (which must have interaction terms for obvious reasons), in the human mind. Yet on my account serendipity might well be within the parameters of one's 'rational' prior model.
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