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To: Doctor Stochastic; js1138; betty boop
Er, if I may ...

The problem with all forms of "random" structures - whether Brownian, Chaitin's Omega, etc. - is that they are at root the effect of a prior cause and thus, from a perspective outside of the hypercube of space/time, or from the perspective of an extra time dimension within the hypercube, knowable and thus, non-random or as Wolfram says, pseudorandom.

664 posted on 01/25/2005 8:01:31 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: Alamo-Girl
The problem with all forms of "random" structures - whether Brownian, Chaitin's Omega, etc. - is that they are at root the effect of a prior cause ...

This has not been demonstrated. In QM, such a demonstration would contradict some experiments. Were such a cause known (or in QM, known to exist), there would be measurable consequences. How would one go about showing the existence of a "cause" that mimicked "randomness"?

(I'm not sure that Chaitin's Omega is "randomly generated" in common usage. It is very complex, as are randomly generated strings.)

665 posted on 01/25/2005 8:12:33 PM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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