Is there such a thing as randomness?

Question

Ive been wondering this for a while. Can something really be random? example, a dice roll. While it seems random, i think it could be calculatable [although it would be improbable to do so] but if you look at all the forces acting on it, like the movement of your hand, the heat, air speed hitting the dice, and all the hundreds of other variables... wouldn't you be technically able to calculate what side the dice would land on? this is all theoretical, of course, nobody would do that many calculations. But still... isnt every outcome calculateable no matter how chaotic it is?

Answer 1

You well understand the basics. There is no genuine "randomness," simply NP-complex (incomputable) sets of vectors. I.e., there are, for many dynamics, so many influencing factors, that solving their outcome would require a computer larger than the Universe, running longer than the Universe has existed. (God comes to Mind....)

Well-respected scientists, such as Dr. Phillip Morrison in his "Ring of Truth," note that it is likely that each atom has a unique history, based on its path through the Universe, which gives its vibrational spin a unique character, although undetectable by mankind's instruments. O. M. Aivanhov notes a similar perspective in his "Light Is a Living Spirit."

So-called "chaos theory" continues to find order in so-called "random systems."

Dr. Tiller, http://www.tiller.org and "Psychoenergetic Science," and the site http://www.divinecosmos.com also indicate the control and co-variance of psi and cosmos.

Even every one of the trillions of virtual photons (light too quick to remain in the "physical universe") which support each electronic orbital (without such virtual light, all the atoms would collapse) has a specific, if likely-uncalculable, effect on the electron it encounters.

An interesting example at the human level of ability to cut through the data-maze is http://www.seandavidmorton.com who will be guesting tonight (Thursday evening into Friday morning) on http://www.coasttocoastam.com radio (click on "Affiliates" button for local station). How this may be done is discussed in Dr. Elizabeth Mayer's "Extraordinary Knowing," and in an even more personal way in Dr. Martha Beck's "Expecting Adam," both very worthwhile.

best regards,

j.

Answer 2

There is no such thing as pure randomness. What we consider randomness is nothing more than Causality. The confluence of factors resulting in a specific outcome.
The reason the term randomness exists is to address those causality events that are too complex for us to predict either because of our inability to grasp all of the factors involved or from an ignorance of certain factors.

Answer 3

you might as well ask if there is such a thing as free will or if we are all just along for the ride.

all i can tell you is that computer generated random numbers are not random at all. they are based off of the current time in the systems clock and then put into an algorithm to produce something that appears random to us. So if you knew the numbers to plug into the algorithm you could get the exact same answer, not random at all.

Answer 4

There is no such thing as randomness. All things are determined by the things which both precede them and interconnect with them. But we are unable to perceive those relationships, so many aspects of our experience seem random. And ARE random for all practical purposes, because if you can't experience the connections - if they are unknown to you - then they cannot be predicted by you and hence are random. We all come into the world experiencing life as random, but as we develop, we start seeing the connections. But never all the connections, even though they are there.

Answer 5

Maybe yes, maybe no - let's flip a coin.

Actually 'j' and others give great answers, but in the end randomness exists for us humans simply because our brains aren't developed enough to understand all of the interconnections between everything.

Randomness is just as 'true' as any of our feeble human experiences are. I say 'feeble' not to denigrate us humans but simply because there are lots of things that we cannot understand or experience. (and maybe thats a good thing)

Answer 6

Randomness and chaos are just unrecognizeable patterns.
Everything can be predicted if the means of predicting are possible. However the methods of predicting every exact event are so complicated the human mind is obviously not capable of calculating the result.

Answer 7

"The Heisenberg uncertainty theory states that express pairs of tangible residences, like place and momentum, can not the two be uncomplicated to arbitrary precision. it incredibly is, the extra precisely one supplies is uncomplicated, the fewer precisely the different could be uncomplicated. it incredibly is impossible to degree concurrently the two place and speed of a microscopic particle with any degree of accuracy or actuality." - Wikipedia basically that's asserting; understanding "the outstanding configuration of the particular variables of the universe" won't take place. Your very final element; "that's extra hypothesized into organic and organic and chemistry configurations in living organisms. Our concepts at the instant are not random!" - What made you think of concepts have been random?

Answer 8

No. What you call randomness the universe calls synchronicity in process.

Answer 9

yes and no.