John Conway: " This famous saying of Einstein, 'I cannot believe that God plays dice with the universe', Well it doesn't matter if God plays dice with the universe. It makes no difference. So the opposite of deterministic is not random, it is free. I don`t quite know what free is but it is not the same as random because I know something about what random is."
Harry On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 2:02 PM H LV <hveeder...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > The mathematician John Conway died in April from complications due to > Covid-19. He was most well known for his Game of Life, however he felt his > best work was his discovery of surreal numbers which grew out his interest > in the game of Go. > > In this interview clip John Conway explains in layman's terms why the > opposite of deterministic is not random. He says that Einstein`s > famous remark that "God does not play dice with the universe" is irrelevant > because he shows how randomness is also a type of determinism. > > https://youtu.be/r1bDSlt1n9M?t=2294 > > Harry > > >>
