On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 3:30 AM, Stathis Papaioannou <stath...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 5:35 AM, Craig Weinberg <whatsons...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> On Thursday, April 11, 2013 3:29:51 PM UTC-4, John Clark wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 Craig Weinberg <whats...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> > If matter is deterministic, how could it behave in a random way? >>> >>> >>> It couldn't. >> >> >> Are you saying then that matter is random, or that it is neither random nor >> deterministic? > > Matter behaves randomly, but probability theory allows us to make > predictions about random events.
In my view, randomness = magic. The MWI and Comp are the only theories I've seen so far that do not require magic to explain observed randomness. > > -- > Stathis Papaioannou > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
