Think about it. If a "random" action were to occur, would it happen again if time were to magically reverse, or would it always lead to the same action?
2007-12-12 21:36:09 · 3 answers · asked by jonny boy 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Most of the time when we say random, we really mean that the situation is so complicated that we can't predict the outcome. A random event then is something of which we have a profound ignorance.
However, from Quantum Theory it looks like there is a curtain drawn so that we can never know what happens behind the curtain. As an analogy, it is as if we could see automobile traffic on another planet but could never know where the drivers of those automobiles are going. We can do statistical studies but never know the cause of any individual effect.
We have an inherent inability to reproduce a chain of cause and effect except in a statistical sense. So our ability to predict is based upon many individual chains of cause and effect that are averaged.
2007-12-12 22:13:22 · answer #1 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It could not be the same if it is purely random, not to my way of thinking.
2007-12-13 05:44:53 · answer #2 · answered by joe 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
parallel universes.. they're everywhere!!! =P
2007-12-13 05:44:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋