![]() Basically a wand is waved and we have a determinate result at the end." Someone just has to say "Well something funky happens during the measurement process. It seems as if these concerns are never addressed, and in all honesty, true randomness is almost like magic. Where is this indeterministic/random "event" or "interaction" coming from? Does it come from nowhere, like a space invader in Newtonian dynamics? How is this possible? And why does it seem to follow objective probabilities at the very least? What "fixes" that probabilistic distribution, and why must it be fixed like that instead of being completely random/chaotic (in the sense of completely patternless, not Chaos Theory, which is fully deterministic)? This I cannot understand, and I honestly think the people who nonchalantly say "Well the amazing thing is the Universe is inherently random!" really aren't thinking things through. However, very often I'll hear someone explain Quantum Mechanics or radioactivity in terms of an inherent indeterminism/randomness in nature. ![]() This I have no problem with, as it centers on epistemological considerations of incomplete information. If we look at the history of probability theory it centers on a lack of knowing the exact outcome of certain games/gambling bets. ![]() I tend to think of randomness as a lack of complete information when it comes to knowing something. ![]()
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