Sunday, October 30, 2022
where is randomness?
You would have to point at something strange in quantum mechanics to have randomness, namely the collapsing of the quantum field, as it is supposed to do in an experimental set up. The multiverse view of life, just has alternaive paths, but no randomness.
I cannot see that randomness can be proved to exist. Indeed it is perhaps a stupid concept. It is much better to think in terms of ' cannot be predicted with our resourses'. If you cannot see the mechanism, what happens is unpredictable.
One could see a persons life as a sort of story book being experienced. It is all there, written down, but you don't know what is going to happen next. The story is not random, just unpredictable.
We can take certain unpredictable examples, and compare them with some experimental results, and talk about our inability to see a difference between them, this does not need anything random to actually exist as a standard.
Martin
