On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:40 PM, Edgar L. Owen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Replying to Liz and Jason in a new topic as they raised the important > topic of the source of randomness that deserves a separate topic. > > As I explain in my book on Reality, all randomness is quantum. There > simply is no true classical level randomness. > Have you gotten to step 3 in the UDA yet? It explains how true randomness can emerge without assuming QM. Jason There is plenty of non-computability which is often mistaken for randomness > but all true randomness at the classical level percolates up from the > quantum level. > > At the fundamental computational level all computations are exact. However > the way space can emerge and be dimensionalized from these computations is > random which is the source of all randomness. This quantum level randomness > can either be damped out or amplified up to the Classical level depending > on the information structures involved. > > To use Liz's example of how do computers generate random numbers, they > don't in themselves. As Jason points out they draw on sources of (quantum) > randomness from the environment, but the code the computer itself uses > contains no randomness as the whole point of digital devices is to > completely submerge any source of randomness because that would pollute the > code and/or data. > > Of course eventually everything, including computers, is subject to > randomness and fails.... > > Edgar > > > > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
