It's almost like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
O.K., I'll start . . .
. What do you mean by that?
I'm referring to the play
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead which is based around
Hamlet.
From wikipedia:
The play opens with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern betting on coin flips. Rosencrantz, who bets heads each time, wins ninety-two flips in a row. The extreme unlikeliness of this event according to the laws of probability leads Guildenstern to suggest that they may be "within un-, sub- or supernatural forces". The audience learns why they are where they are: the King has sent for them. Guildenstern theorizes on the nature of reality, focusing on how an event becomes increasingly real as more people witness it.
It's like the opening scene to said play when I flip coins as far as the regularity of their results. However, I have in the past found amusement in magic tricks and happen to know that this is likely just a symptom of flipping the coin in a controlled and regular manner. Any child can learn this trick with enough practice until they are able to flip the coin to the same side on demand a very high numbers of times.
In this also, neither remember where they are, why they are there, and so on. Rosencrantz seems to not care that he flips heads continually or where he is. Guildenstern worries. To me it seems like Rosencrantz here is fairly awakened and embraces existentialism. Guildenstern on the other hand is very caught up with the fiction in his head about what
should happen when the coin is flipped in
the world, rather than
his world, and it causes him personal paradox and discomfort. Even though its not against the "rules" of Guildensterns world, the more times the coin is flipped "heads" the more against the rules it becomes and this causes him distress because he essentially has to question the "shape of his world" (albeit less so than we do here).
There is a real debt and weight when we ask such questions though - when we ask others to create our reality for us. On one hand, we trade an unparalleled happiness (or sadness if that's your thing) for the danger of being lost in a reality to oneself. On the other being lost in a reality made by the masses and thus likely miserable. While any one of us can create our own realities, we cannot (or perhaps should not) create our reality on our own to our own -- unless you happen to want to be a hermit or live by a pond in the woods. While there is a real need for us to create, there is almost as great a need for some coherency between our world and those around us which serves to balance and limit those of us that are Guildensterns. I think this is why Guildensterns would believe in fictions like "the coin will eventually even out to 50% heads", "induction", or that Grandi's Series sums to 1/2 even though it may cause them distress when it doesn't - because it causes calm when it does. It is the scaffolding for a worldview. An honest need to know where they stand so they can then attempt to walk. Once they have walked enough in their own world, eventually they may end up creating their own world or not caring about the world they are in, and thus transform into being Rosencrantz.
Of course I'm reading far more into it than the play suggests. I hope this was not completely off-topic.