Re: All randomness is quantum...

2013-12-29 Thread LizR
On 29 December 2013 13:11, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jason and John, If something is random it can't be computed by any deterministic process. That's the meaning. I thought the digits of pi were random, but computable by a deterministic process? -- You received this message

Re: All randomness is quantum...

2013-12-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 28 Dec 2013, at 16:24, Jason Resch wrote: On Dec 28, 2013, at 7:04 AM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jason, Have you gotten to Part III of my book on Reality yet? It explains how all randomness is quantum, and it explains the source of that randomness is the lack of any

Re: All randomness is quantum...

2013-12-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
in my book on Reality, all randomness is quantum. There simply is no true classical level randomness. There is plenty of non- computability which is often mistaken for randomness but all true randomness at the classical level percolates up from the quantum level. At the fundamental

Re: All randomness is quantum...

2013-12-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
? It explains how all randomness is quantum, and it explains the source of that randomness is the lack of any governing deterministic equations when the mini-spacetimes that emerge from quantum events have be aligned due to linking at common events. I have not, but my point is there is already

Re: All randomness is quantum...

2013-12-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 29 Dec 2013, at 11:37, LizR wrote: On 29 December 2013 13:11, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jason and John, If something is random it can't be computed by any deterministic process. That's the meaning. I thought the digits of pi were random, but computable by a deterministic

Re: All randomness is quantum...

2013-12-29 Thread Jason Resch
On Dec 29, 2013, at 4:37 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 December 2013 13:11, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jason and John, If something is random it can't be computed by any deterministic process. That's the meaning. I thought the digits of pi were random, but

Re: All randomness is quantum...

2013-12-29 Thread meekerdb
On 12/29/2013 2:37 AM, LizR wrote: On 29 December 2013 13:11, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net mailto:edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jason and John, If something is random it can't be computed by any deterministic process. That's the meaning. I thought the digits of pi were random, but

Re: All randomness is quantum...

2013-12-29 Thread LizR
Well OK, but that's *one* way in which randomness isn't quantum. On 30 December 2013 07:59, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/29/2013 2:37 AM, LizR wrote: On 29 December 2013 13:11, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jason and John, If something is random it can't be

Re: All randomness is quantum...

2013-12-28 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Jason, Have you gotten to Part III of my book on Reality yet? It explains how all randomness is quantum, and it explains the source of that randomness is the lack of any governing deterministic equations when the mini-spacetimes that emerge from quantum events have be aligned due to linking

Re: All randomness is quantum...

2013-12-28 Thread Jason Resch
On Dec 28, 2013, at 7:04 AM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Jason, Have you gotten to Part III of my book on Reality yet? It explains how all randomness is quantum, and it explains the source of that randomness is the lack of any governing deterministic equations when the mini

Re: All randomness is quantum...

2013-12-28 Thread John Mikes
of the source of randomness that deserves a separate topic. As I explain in my book on Reality, all randomness is quantum. There simply is no true classical level randomness. There is plenty of non-computability which is often mistaken for randomness but all true randomness at the classical level

Re: All randomness is quantum...

2013-12-28 Thread Jason Resch
in a new topic as they raised the important topic of the source of randomness that deserves a separate topic. As I explain in my book on Reality, all randomness is quantum. There simply is no true classical level randomness. There is plenty of non-computability which is often mistaken

Re: All randomness is quantum...

2013-12-28 Thread Jesse Mazer
that deserves a separate topic. As I explain in my book on Reality, all randomness is quantum. There simply is no true classical level randomness. Have you gotten to step 3 in the UDA yet? It explains how true randomness can emerge without assuming QM. Jason There is plenty of non

Re: All randomness is quantum...

2013-12-28 Thread John Mikes
are exact. However the way space can emerge and be dimensionalized from these computations is random which is the source of all randomness. This quantum level randomness can either be damped out or amplified up to the Classical level depending on the information structures involved. To use Liz's

Re: All randomness is quantum...

2013-12-28 Thread Edgar L. Owen
on Reality, all randomness is quantum. There simply is no true classical level randomness. There is plenty of non-computability which is often mistaken for randomness but all true randomness at the classical level percolates up from the quantum level. At the fundamental computational level all

Re: All randomness is quantum...

2013-12-28 Thread meekerdb
On 12/28/2013 4:11 PM, Edgar L. Owen wrote: Jason and John, If something is random it can't be computed by any deterministic process. That's the meaning. That's one possible meaning, although it can only strictly apply to infinite sets of something. I think of random as just being an

All randomness is quantum...

2013-12-27 Thread Edgar L. Owen
Replying to Liz and Jason in a new topic as they raised the important topic of the source of randomness that deserves a separate topic. As I explain in my book on Reality, all randomness is quantum. There simply is no true classical level randomness. There is plenty of non-computability which

Re: All randomness is quantum...

2013-12-27 Thread LizR
Assuming everything is quantum (as most physicists do) then clearly all randomness must be. -- 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

Re: All randomness is quantum...

2013-12-27 Thread meekerdb
On 12/27/2013 8:52 PM, LizR wrote: Assuming everything is quantum (as most physicists do) then clearly all randomness must be. But note that Bruno wants to avoid this by making first-person continuity uncertain. Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: All randomness is quantum...

2013-12-27 Thread LizR
On 28 December 2013 19:45, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 12/27/2013 8:52 PM, LizR wrote: Assuming everything is quantum (as most physicists do) then clearly all randomness must be. But note that Bruno wants to avoid this by making first-person continuity uncertain. Hmm. Not

Re: All randomness is quantum...

2013-12-27 Thread Jason Resch
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:40 PM, Edgar L. Owen edgaro...@att.net wrote: Replying to Liz and Jason in a new topic as they raised the important topic of the source of randomness that deserves a separate topic. As I explain in my book on Reality, all randomness is quantum. There simply