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Originally Posted by whswhs
But that's completely missing the point. There is a quality in the real world called "being physically attractive," and I can choose to play someone who has that quality. There is a quality called "being rich," and one called "being physically fit," and so on. But there is no quality in the real world of "being lucky." In the real world, the belief in "luck" as an actual trait that a human being can have is what GURPS calls a Delusion.
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Being attractive physically attractive is an emergent property of a vast number of tiny effects; There's no such thing as an atom of attractiveness.
Leading a life that benefits from a statistically improbable amount of good events is equally an emergent property of a vast number of tiny effects.
Emergent properties are very real.