John, I give a fairly detailed answer to what quantum randomness is and what it applies to in my New Topic post "Another shot at how spacetime emerges from computational reality".
Basically nature must choose randomly when it aligns the separate spacetime networks that arise from particle property conservation when particles computationally interact. That's because there can be no deterministic way to align separate spacetimes, so nature must choose randomly among the available possibilities..... Edgar On Friday, January 17, 2014 11:57:08 AM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Edgar L. Owen <edga...@att.net<javascript:> > > wrote: > > > I give a coherent definition of free will in my book on Reality. Free >> will is simply the fact that some bounded system generates actions that are >> not entirely determined by its environmental inputs. >> > > OK, then the term "free will" is synonymous with the word "random". But > there is no great mystery in how that came about and it doesn't matter if > brain > microtubules vibrate or not; as I've said more than once I know of no law > of logic that demands that every event have a cause. A deeper question > than "why are some things random?" would be "why isn't everything random?". > > John K Clark > > > -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
