Let’s revisit the amusement park metaphor from my earlier post, “God Does Play Dice.”
Previously, from the Creator’s View:
Imagine you’re God, building a park. You design an amusement park. The buildings, roller coasters, walkway require precision, planning, and full control. That’s the large-scale universe, governed by general relativity theory: smooth, predictable, and built on the curvature of space-time.
But when it comes to the small things like who buys cotton candy, who screams on a ride, or who walks where, you don’t want full control and actually you do not care as long as within the law of your universe. So small things get random. That’s where randomness of quantum theory comes.
Now, from the Player’s Perspective:
This time, shift the viewpoint. Instead of being the designer of the park, imagine you’re just a visitor or player walking in, trying to enjoy the rides. From your perspective, things don’t feel so random. In fact, you feel the free will. Your choices are what snack to buy, where to walk, when to scream, make decisions based on your mood, past experiences, and current environment.
And my view based on today’s observation…
I was sitting in my car in a quiet area. Nobody was around. But then, I saw someone behind walking towards my car visible through my small side mirror, I noticed that person is approaching from far away. From perspective of that person, absolutely no one was visible even me. Person started smelling hair repeatedly, a private, unconscious act people do when they think no one’s watching. A pure random act which surprised me.
But once got close enough to notice me sitting in the car, the behavior changed instantly. Same person switched into “socially normal” mode.
Let’s go back to the amusement park…
From view of player, as long as they know no one observes they can do anything randomly, almost anything like the person who smelled hair.
But as soon as players see surveillance cameras they pick a predictable act within rules of park which we can calculate probability of it based on circumstances.
In physics, this mirrors a tension between quantum uncertainty at the micro level (where particles seem to behave randomly if not observed ) and general relativity determinism at the macro level (where large systems follow clear laws).
Mohsin With E 
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