darkuser Wrote:
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> But arn't the results of tossing a coin random
> because these factors were indeed taken into
> account.


I like the way you are thinking, but still you are contradicting yourself. If all the factors were really "taken into account", then suddenly its no longer random.


> It also depends on your defintion for
> random.


Suggest a definition then...


> IMO, if the world in which we're living is
> truely governed by randomness, i would expect one
> toss to result in the coin shooting into outer
> space, another to repel my thumb, another to fly
> circles around me etc.


That makes you someone interested in science rather than scientism....






Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/29/2005 07:19PM by Simon.