RE: Who throws the dice for you?
April 11, 2014 at 5:12 pm
(This post was last modified: April 11, 2014 at 5:16 pm by Heywood.)
(April 11, 2014 at 5:05 pm)Chuck Wrote: You imagine at the most fundamental level of reality, inaccessible to science but no doubt still accessible to you through the ramblings of some bronze or iron age egomaniacal pot head, there must exist deterministic fundamental building blocks of reality, being acted upon by an external purposed agent you call god, that is producing an appearent nondetermininstic outcome at a level accessible to science.
Right?
Prove the most fundamental building blocks of the reality must be deterministic, or else cast away your idiot fantasy.
I'm glad you agree that science suggests there must be elements of reality that are inaccessible. The observable natural world isn't all there is.
(April 11, 2014 at 5:05 pm)Chuck Wrote:(April 11, 2014 at 9:02 am)Heywood Wrote: Quantum mechanics says nothing about where randomness comes from. In my own experience randomness is generated by a mechanisms which contains variables which are hidden from me.
Really?
When have you experienced events at quantum level?
When did I ever claim that I experience events at the quantum level? I only claimed that in my experience randomness is a subjective experience resulting from ignorance of all the elements which cause a particular outcome of an event.