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How flexible is the principle of causality?
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RE: How flexible is the principle of causality?
(March 18, 2014 at 8:27 am)tor Wrote:
(March 18, 2014 at 8:24 am)Alex K Wrote: It sounds like I agree, but sorry if I'm a bit dense, what's "decided upon the action" supposed to mean?

I have a random number generator in front of me.
I click the button and it shows me a random number.
True random generator shows me number which does not exist until I press the button.
The determinist number generator shows me number which was generated some time ago.

Thanks. Ok, yeah, it's hard to tell the difference in practise. In theories, some explicitly tell you where the information in your "random" number came from (deterministic interpretations of QM) and others prescribe complete agnosticism towards this. I would argue that the Copenhagen interpretation describes natural processes as being truly random, since it denies that there exists anything in nature carrying this information. But this is something I'd like to discuss deeper.
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RE: How flexible is the principle of causality? - by tor - March 18, 2014 at 7:25 am
RE: How flexible is the principle of causality? - by tor - March 18, 2014 at 8:21 am
RE: How flexible is the principle of causality? - by tor - March 18, 2014 at 8:27 am
RE: How flexible is the principle of causality? - by Alex K - March 18, 2014 at 8:33 am
RE: How flexible is the principle of causality? - by tor - March 18, 2014 at 8:38 am
RE: How flexible is the principle of causality? - by tor - March 18, 2014 at 9:02 am
RE: How flexible is the principle of causality? - by tor - March 18, 2014 at 9:23 am
RE: How flexible is the principle of causality? - by tor - March 18, 2014 at 9:37 am
RE: How flexible is the principle of causality? - by tor - March 18, 2014 at 9:41 am

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