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- Organization: University of Maine System
- Date: Thursday, 19 Nov 1992 10:51:13 EST
- From: <GREESE@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
- Message-ID: <92324.105113GREESE@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
- Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.meta
- Subject: Re: Chaos and causelessness
- References: <1992Nov2.211512.4304@spcvxb.spc.edu>
- <1992Nov4.013138.13097@wixer.cactus.org>
- <1992Nov16.092437.1@woods.ulowell.edu>
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- First, randomness is not the same thing as acausality. Having no
- cause means just that, the event had no prior event which can be named
- as a cause. With randomness, as in quantum theory, we can name a probable caus
- e o
- cause of any quantum level event. They are random, but not at all
- acausal events.
- Do I actually believe this? No, but then again I don't believe quantum
- events are random. But if you believe quantum events to be random, then
- you are stuck with this.
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