Yet Another Stupid Question in Metaphysics
Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2021 3:41 am
I saw this quite some time ago in a Dilbert comic strip.
There was a machine that generates random numbers.
One by one, it printed them out.
They were: 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, etc, always a nine.
Someone said, that does not seem very random to me.
Another said, that's the problem with randomness--you
can never be sure.
AFAIK, in theory, TRULY random numbers COULD be like that.
In multi-verse theory, there MUST be infinite numbers of
universes in which utterly improbable things always happen,
such as in the comic strip.
And there must be sentient humans who perceive them,
but can never make any sense out of any of it.
So, the stupid question is, can there be any such thing as
true randomness?
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There was a machine that generates random numbers.
One by one, it printed them out.
They were: 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, etc, always a nine.
Someone said, that does not seem very random to me.
Another said, that's the problem with randomness--you
can never be sure.
AFAIK, in theory, TRULY random numbers COULD be like that.
In multi-verse theory, there MUST be infinite numbers of
universes in which utterly improbable things always happen,
such as in the comic strip.
And there must be sentient humans who perceive them,
but can never make any sense out of any of it.
So, the stupid question is, can there be any such thing as
true randomness?
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