Don't you suspect that the conclusion that phenomena can have an effect, sans
cause, is largely because our ability to measure phenomena, is limited by our
equipment, that isn't sophisticated or refined sufficiently to detect the true
cause? Believe it or not, for many years, the belief that stars didn't have
planets was a majoritarian view of astronomers. A few took the view that
planets could be detected around other stars with improvements in telescopes
and watch unseen planets jiggle their parent star, via gravity. I may be too
thick to appreciate randomness, but I suspect they must follow laws of physics,
either unperceived, or considered unrelated to to observed, effects. I surely
could be wrong, but since random number generators have been coded by
generations of programmers, students, engineers, it can't be unpredictable,
deep down, maybe?
-----Original Message-----
From: John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com>
To: everything-list <everything-list@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Sat, Jun 27, 2015 12:20 pm
Subject: Re: A riddle for John Clark
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
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