the ancient concerns, cultures and philosophies which they choose to ignore. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luck#Etymology_and_definition http://www.thaliatook.com/OGOD/fortuna.html http://www.theoi.com/Daimon/Tykhe.html Thus the goddess of "luck" ,and the god of bad luck Loki in norse traditions, is the model on which they are building the notion of probabilistic causality. But even in this there is a choice, as