On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 spudboy100 via Everything List < [email protected]> 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 [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/d/optout.
