On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 spudboy100 via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> But surely phenomena in quantum physics and Conways Life are random, but > computable? Conway's Life is computable but not predictable, there is no shortcut so the only way to know what it will do is watch the program run and see; however Conway's Life is not random either. Life is computable because there is always something (the previous generational life pattern) that if inputted into a computer running the Life program will cause the computer to output the next generation Life pattern. But a event is random if and only if it is a event without a cause, so if something is computable it can not be random. There is no law of logic that demands every event must have a cause and in the 20th century some events in physics were discovered that had no cause, in other words were 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/d/optout.
