On 9 March 2014 12:53, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/8/2014 3:41 PM, LizR wrote: > > On 9 March 2014 08:50, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 3/8/2014 12:11 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> The existence of the UD is a consequence of elementary axioms in >> arithmetic (like x+0=x, etc.). >> >> I can't hardly imagine something less random than that. >> >> >> But we don't know that it exists. ISTM that rejecting the possibility of >> randomness in the world is just dogma. Of course we can study and try to >> understand and minimize randomness is our theories - but I see no reason to >> simply rule it out because we don't like it; especially by hyposthesizing >> an unobservable and untestable everythingism. I like your theory, but not >> because it avoids randomness (as Everett does too), but because it seems to >> address the mind-body problem. >> >> > It's hard to imagine a mechanism for randomness, especially one that > doesn't involve hidden variables. Any suggestions? > > > To me, a mechanism for intrinsic randomness sounds like a contradiction. > > Exactly.
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