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Anonymous Mon 31 Aug 08:03:00 2020 No.12069247 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>12069249 >>12069288 >>12069566 >>12069724

What is the nature of "randomness"? Is it a real thing or just a copout for our smol brains?

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Anonymous Mon 31 Aug 2020 08:03:45 No.12069249 Report

Quoted By: >>12069254

>>12069247
>What is the nature of "randomness"?
This is a paradox.

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Anonymous Mon 31 Aug 2020 08:07:18 No.12069254 Report

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>>12069249
Explain. Do you mean that defining the nature of randomness requires randomness, thus can't be precisely defined?

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Anonymous Mon 31 Aug 2020 08:11:05 No.12069261 Report

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Randomness is a box of rain that never becomes mist even though it wants to so so hard

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Anonymous Mon 31 Aug 2020 08:40:41 No.12069288 Report

Quoted By: >>12069293 >>12069561

>>12069247
randomness as commonly used is implicitly defined as an open and thus unpredictable system. It is an expression of limited knowledge of initial conditions or governing laws or of inadequate processing power. But the Reality at large is a closed system, and thus has no true randomness. Randomness is thus subjective and is a function of bounded cognition

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Anonymous Mon 31 Aug 2020 08:45:12 No.12069293 Report

Quoted By: >>12069351

>>12069288
quantum indeterminacy or quantum randomness is actually not random at all. The collapse of the wavefunction is internally determined, follows from a global utility function inherent in reality. The correct term is inherent generativity or self-determinacy. Reality is an inherently generative, self-determining system.

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Anonymous Mon 31 Aug 2020 09:20:03 No.12069351 Report

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>>12069293
not science, fuck off

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Anonymous Mon 31 Aug 2020 11:44:21 No.12069561 Report

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>>12069288
Nope, there is no reason why reality MUST be deterministic

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Anonymous Mon 31 Aug 2020 11:47:46 No.12069566 Report

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>>12069247
Both.

Randomness is relative, and if we can't find a pattern, then its random.

Also we already established that Laplace's demon cannot exist, "muh determinism" fags fuck off, randomness is real.

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Anonymous Mon 31 Aug 2020 12:50:31 No.12069673 Report

Quoted By: >>12069681

>>12069566
I am inclined to believe in predetermines because the notion that the universe could be random is absurd, unless the many world interpretation is true.

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Anonymous Mon 31 Aug 2020 12:54:51 No.12069681 Report

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>>12069673
>evolved to brain just to claim that universe does the thinking for it

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Anonymous Mon 31 Aug 2020 13:13:23 No.12069716 Report

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>>12069561
not deterministic as in externally determined, but self-deterministic as in internally determined, yes. Let's say for argument's sake that reality was random, and that randomness is the opposite of determinism. Then reality would be determined randomly. But it would still be determined by itself. Reality has no real external part. Thus we have a contradiction. So bingo bango, reality MUST be self-deterministic. Plebs owned

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Anonymous Mon 31 Aug 2020 13:15:09 No.12069724 Report

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>>12069247
Probably the latter.

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Anonymous Mon 31 Aug 2020 13:18:06 No.12069731 Report

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>>12069351
it is math, science, and philosophy. But I don't fault you for not understanding it, with your vacuous skull cavity

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Anonymous Mon 31 Aug 2020 15:22:10 No.12069991 Report

Quoted By: >>12070033 >>12070149

Randomness is an illusion. Look at a dice. It's the favorite example of probability theory. However if you knew all of its initial conditions you could exactly compute its trajectory. Suddenly the dice isn't random anymore. Its alleged randomness is the result of initial conditions which we can choose by power of our free will. If anyone had the computational power and necessary precision, he could throw exactly the number on the dice he wants to throw. Same applies to the quantum level. What we label as randomness is in fact the manifestation of free will.

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Anonymous Mon 31 Aug 2020 15:36:54 No.12070033 Report

Quoted By: >>12070061

>>12069991
Humans inherently aren't random, so are you implying that there's no free will?

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Anonymous Mon 31 Aug 2020 15:42:57 No.12070061 Report

Quoted By: >>12070115

>>12070033
Humans have free will and so do elementary particles. Our free will is the sum of the free will of all the particles in our body. The human body is no consistent physical object but a combined and highly complex quantum mechanical wave function constantly collapsing and decollapsing in smallest time frames

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Anonymous Mon 31 Aug 2020 15:56:05 No.12070115 Report

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>>12070061
Just because something acts probabilistically doesn't mean there's free will

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Anonymous Mon 31 Aug 2020 16:06:26 No.12070149 Report

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>>12069991
>What we label as randomness is in fact the manifestation of free will
exactly. The free will of the reality we inhabit, a reality closed under definition and determinacy (self-determinacy)

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