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rolling dice is not random?

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First post2015-10-21 17:47 -0400
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  rolling dice is not random? Dale <dale@dalekelly.org> - 2015-10-21 17:47 -0400
    Re: rolling dice is not random? Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-10-21 22:13 +0000
    Re: rolling dice is not random? jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-10-21 22:22 +0000
      Re: rolling dice is not random? Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-10-21 17:37 -0500
        Re: rolling dice is not random? jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-10-21 22:54 +0000
          Re: rolling dice is not random? Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-10-21 23:19 +0000
            Re: rolling dice is not random? jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-10-21 23:34 +0000
            Re: rolling dice is not random? noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2015-10-21 17:45 -0700
              Re: rolling dice is not random? Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-10-22 04:14 +0000
    Re: rolling dice is not random? Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2015-10-22 09:45 +1100
      Re: rolling dice is not random? Dale <dale@dalekelly.org> - 2015-10-21 20:12 -0400
        Re: rolling dice is not random? Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2015-10-22 12:04 +1100
          Re: rolling dice is not random? Dale <dale@dalekelly.org> - 2015-10-21 22:21 -0400
            Re: "Life" is virtual, not real. Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2015-10-22 18:56 +1100
              Re: "Life" is virtual, not real. "Andrew" <andrew.321remov@usa.net> - 2015-10-22 03:09 -0700
              Re: "Life" is virtual, not real. Dale <dale@dalekelly.org> - 2015-10-22 16:36 -0400
                Re: "Life" is virtual, not real. Olrik <olrik666@gmail.com> - 2015-10-22 23:49 -0400
              Re: The Ensemble Interpretation. Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2015-10-23 11:32 +1100
                Re: The Ensemble Interpretation. Dale <dale@dalekelly.org> - 2015-10-22 20:40 -0400
                  Re: The Ensemble Interpretation. Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2015-10-23 11:50 +1100
              Re: The Ensemble Interpretation. noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2015-10-23 17:33 -0700
            Re: "Life" is virtual, not real. The BORG <borg@future.com> - 2015-10-24 15:27 +0100
              Re: "Life" is virtual, not real. Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2015-10-25 13:54 +1100
    Re: rolling dice is not random? bilgat@m.nu - 2015-10-21 18:46 -0500
      Re: rolling dice is not random? Dale <dale@dalekelly.org> - 2015-10-21 20:13 -0400
    Re: rolling dice is not random? Dale <dale@dalekelly.org> - 2015-10-21 22:48 -0400
      Re: rolling dice is not random? John Ritson <j.ritson@hotmail.co.uk> - 2015-10-22 09:57 +0100
        Re: rolling dice is not random? Dale <dale@dalekelly.org> - 2015-10-22 16:32 -0400
          Re: rolling dice is not random? John Ritson <j.ritson@hotmail.co.uk> - 2015-10-22 22:53 +0100
            Re: rolling dice is not random? Dale <dale@dalekelly.org> - 2015-10-22 19:36 -0400
              Re: rolling dice is not random? John Ritson <j.ritson@hotmail.co.uk> - 2015-10-23 10:26 +0100
                Re: rolling dice is not random? "Kadaitcha Man" <nospam.nospam.nospam@sci.research.careers.i.have.shorter.stature.can.i.grow.taller> - 2015-10-24 09:56 +0000
            Re: rolling dice is not random? Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-10-22 19:20 -0500
              Re: rolling dice is not random? R Kym Horsell <kym@kymhorsell.com> - 2015-10-23 00:38 +0000
    Re: rolling dice is not random? Hans Wussel <hanswussel@openmailbox.org> - 2015-10-22 19:40 +0200
      Re: rolling dice is not random? Dale <dale@dalekelly.org> - 2015-10-22 16:38 -0400
        Re: rolling dice is not random? "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-10-22 14:21 -0700
        Re: rolling dice is not random? Mahipal <mahipal7638@gmail.com> - 2015-10-22 15:41 -0700
          Re: rolling dice is not random? "Raymond Luxury Yacht" <invalid@example.com> - 2015-10-22 19:37 -0700
          Re: rolling dice is not random? benj <nobody@gmail.com> - 2015-10-22 22:58 -0400
            Re: rolling dice is not random? Mahipal <mahipal7638@gmail.com> - 2015-10-23 09:51 -0700
    Re: rolling dice is not random? Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2015-10-24 14:56 -0700
    Re: rolling dice is not random? "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-10-26 13:13 -0700
      Re: rolling dice is not random? Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2015-10-26 15:31 -0700
        pi for .. those guys noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2015-10-27 12:29 -0700
        Re: rolling dice is not random? "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-10-27 12:45 -0700

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#527274 — rolling dice is not random?

FromDale <dale@dalekelly.org>
Date2015-10-21 17:47 -0400
Subjectrolling dice is not random?
Message-ID<8s5mn9.59b.19.1@news.alt.net>
assuming determinism means nothing is random, everything is bounded by 
cause and effect

to roll dice they start in a particular position in the hand, they exit 
the hand in a position, their path to the environment to the table 
bounds them to cause and effect physics, their landing and final roll on 
the table is bound by the environmental cause and effect physics

someone ought to construct a physical dice rolling/receiving apparatus 
to prove the point, rolling dice is too often used as an excuse for 
random existence

the only empirical evidence of randomness in quantum physics is the 
Casimir Effect, which does not create a true vacuum for virtual 
particles, zero-point energy, etc. to be observed

things like Faraday Cages aren't true vacuums
even the apparatus introduces something else into a vacuum
things like neutrinos can enter the apparatus and attempted vacuum
probably more stuff from more scholarly people

treating something as random, or assuming it is effectively random, does 
not make it random, secondly does not make randomness part of determinism

before you can address that something is random, you have to address 
whether random exists

by deduction, if random exists then random does whatever

there is no inductive reasoning, if something appears random apply 
statistically designed experiments with all the appropriate control 
variables to something indescribable by statistics until you agree that 
randomness cannot be described statistically or out of stubbornness 
devote your life to the cause

note, all assumes logic, if illogic exists then random may do many 
things, and many things may do many things


-- 
Dale
http://www.dalekelly.org

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#527278

FromFabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain>
Date2015-10-21 22:13 +0000
Message-ID<pan.2015.10.21.22.14.30@localhost.localdomain>
In reply to#527274
On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 17:47:50 -0400, Dale wrote:

> assuming determinism means nothing is random, everything is bounded by 
> cause and effect
> 

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!  You crashed before you even got off the
ground.

Where have you been, asshole?  This idiotic statement has already long
ago been blown to bits by the mathematics of non-linearity, i.e. chaos.

Chaos is absolutely deterministic but admits an effective and functional
randomness.

Go back to school, dumb fuck, and try again.

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#527293

Fromjimp@specsol.spam.sux.com
Date2015-10-21 22:22 +0000
Message-ID<2rflfc-mfd.ln1@mail.specsol.com>
In reply to#527274
In sci.physics Dale <dale@dalekelly.org> wrote:
> assuming determinism means nothing is random, everything is bounded by 
> cause and effect
> 
> to roll dice they start in a particular position in the hand, they exit 
> the hand in a position, their path to the environment to the table 
> bounds them to cause and effect physics, their landing and final roll on 
> the table is bound by the environmental cause and effect physics
> 
> someone ought to construct a physical dice rolling/receiving apparatus 
> to prove the point, rolling dice is too often used as an excuse for 
> random existence

Or get a bunch of people to try to throw dice the same way every time.


-- 
Jim Pennino

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#527297

FromSam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com>
Date2015-10-21 17:37 -0500
Message-ID<6u6dnTPonv0kjrXLnZ2dnUU7-N8AAAAA@giganews.com>
In reply to#527293
On 10/21/15 5:22 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
> In sci.physics Dale <dale@dalekelly.org> wrote:
>> assuming determinism means nothing is random, everything is bounded by
>> cause and effect
>>
>> to roll dice they start in a particular position in the hand, they exit
>> the hand in a position, their path to the environment to the table
>> bounds them to cause and effect physics, their landing and final roll on
>> the table is bound by the environmental cause and effect physics
>>
>> someone ought to construct a physical dice rolling/receiving apparatus
>> to prove the point, rolling dice is too often used as an excuse for
>> random existence
>
> Or get a bunch of people to try to throw dice the same way every time.
>
>

   Try not to be so stoooopid, jimp.


-- 

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to the discussion of physics, news from the physics
community, and physics-related social issues.

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#527300

Fromjimp@specsol.spam.sux.com
Date2015-10-21 22:54 +0000
Message-ID<tmhlfc-eqd.ln1@mail.specsol.com>
In reply to#527297
In sci.physics Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/21/15 5:22 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>> In sci.physics Dale <dale@dalekelly.org> wrote:
>>> assuming determinism means nothing is random, everything is bounded by
>>> cause and effect
>>>
>>> to roll dice they start in a particular position in the hand, they exit
>>> the hand in a position, their path to the environment to the table
>>> bounds them to cause and effect physics, their landing and final roll on
>>> the table is bound by the environmental cause and effect physics
>>>
>>> someone ought to construct a physical dice rolling/receiving apparatus
>>> to prove the point, rolling dice is too often used as an excuse for
>>> random existence
>>
>> Or get a bunch of people to try to throw dice the same way every time.
>>
>>
> 
>   Try not to be so stoooopid, jimp.
 
OK, spamming shit head, explain in your own words what would be stupid
about a statistical study of people attempting to throw dice the same
way time and again.

Do you, spamming shit head, think humans are capable or incapable of
sufficient muscle control to make throwing dice non-random?

Here's your chance to actually DISCUSS something for once instead
of just copying the words of others, spamming shit head.
 

-- 
Jim Pennino

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#527307

FromFabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain>
Date2015-10-21 23:19 +0000
Message-ID<pan.2015.10.21.23.20.43@localhost.localdomain>
In reply to#527300
On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 22:54:53 +0000, jimp wrote:

> 
> think humans are capable or incapable of
> sufficient muscle control to make throwing dice non-random?
> 

Dice are a specially constructed device to produce "randomness."
There are just enough uncontrollable conditions present in the act
of throwing to do the intended job, which is to produce a "random"
result.  Getting humans to impart a fine and reproducible control
would be a pointless stunt.  We all know that the randomness is
only apparent, but we also know that it is good enough for the
intended purpose.


The OP is just another dilettante that is mystified by simple concepts
that are beyond his understanding.

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#527311

Fromjimp@specsol.spam.sux.com
Date2015-10-21 23:34 +0000
Message-ID<b0klfc-l3e.ln1@mail.specsol.com>
In reply to#527307
Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 22:54:53 +0000, jimp wrote:
> 
>> 
>> think humans are capable or incapable of
>> sufficient muscle control to make throwing dice non-random?
>> 
> 
> Dice are a specially constructed device to produce "randomness."
> There are just enough uncontrollable conditions present in the act
> of throwing to do the intended job, which is to produce a "random"
> result.  Getting humans to impart a fine and reproducible control
> would be a pointless stunt.

And you know this to how many decimal places?


-- 
Jim Pennino

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#527328

FromnoTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com>
Date2015-10-21 17:45 -0700
Message-ID<bd9c51ab-1102-49ad-894e-23012e6f5500@googlegroups.com>
In reply to#527307
of course, it is quite possible to game a coin toss, but
just try it with three coins (also,
how do you decide which of two participants, wins.

dice are that much harder to game, owing to sphericity.  like,
here is an interesting problem:
how cam you truncate a tetrahedron, once,
to make a one fifth chance for ech facet.  then,
how can you truncate it twice, to make a fair sixfold die

> only apparent, but we also know that it is good enough for the
> intended purpose.
> 
> 
> The OP is just another dilettante that is mystified by simple concepts
> that are beyond his understanding.

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#527383

FromFabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain>
Date2015-10-22 04:14 +0000
Message-ID<pan.2015.10.22.04.13.14@localhost.localdomain>
In reply to#527328
On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 17:45:21 -0700, noTthaTguY wrote:

> here is an interesting problem:
> how cam you truncate a tetrahedron, once,
> to make a one fifth chance for ech facet.  then,
> how can you truncate it twice, to make a fair sixfold die
> 

I don't bother with mechanics to obtain my "randomness."

I use the true randomness within white noise via my computer
sound card:

https://www.vanheusden.com/aed/


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#527298

FromSylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address>
Date2015-10-22 09:45 +1100
Message-ID<d8qirfF9n3aU1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#527274
On 22/10/2015 8:47 AM, Dale wrote:
> assuming determinism means nothing is random, everything is bounded by
> cause and effect

Probably - but who is assuming determinism?

What point are you actually trying to make here?

Sylvia.

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#527319

FromDale <dale@dalekelly.org>
Date2015-10-21 20:12 -0400
Message-ID<8s5v6h.m5l.19.1@news.alt.net>
In reply to#527298
On 10/21/2015 06:45 PM, Sylvia Else wrote:
> On 22/10/2015 8:47 AM, Dale wrote:
>> assuming determinism means nothing is random, everything is bounded by
>> cause and effect
>
> Probably - but who is assuming determinism?
>
> What point are you actually trying to make here?
>
> Sylvia.

maybe mutations can't be random

something random is untestable and not theory, not deductive because it 
has no cause or link to the "whole" therefore not even hypothesis

not to say it doesn't happen, just to say that there are broader 
explanations that are put aside when responding with some FAQs to a 
creationist

for instance

a) God(s) did it
b) no, random mutations filtered by natural selection did it

there are many studies I have seen on talk.origins that attempt to 
explain genetic variation, they would take a lot of studying for me, but 
they aren't random, they fit with determinism

seems like there is a two tier set of FAQs for science, too bad the 
dissemination isn't as good as it could be

-- 
Dale
http://www.dalekelly.org

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#527337

FromSylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address>
Date2015-10-22 12:04 +1100
Message-ID<d8qr0pFbfq7U1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#527319
On 22/10/2015 11:12 AM, Dale wrote:
> On 10/21/2015 06:45 PM, Sylvia Else wrote:
>> On 22/10/2015 8:47 AM, Dale wrote:
>>> assuming determinism means nothing is random, everything is bounded by
>>> cause and effect
>>
>> Probably - but who is assuming determinism?
>>
>> What point are you actually trying to make here?
>>
>> Sylvia.
>
> maybe mutations can't be random

Every indication we have is that quantum mechanical processes are 
random. That leaks into evolution by such processes as:

a) Cosmic rays arriving at random and impacting DNA molecules.

b) Radioactive decay in the environment and tissues surrounding DNA 
molecules randomly emitting particles that interact with DNA.

c) Radioactive decay within DNA when it happens to contain an unstable 
isotope of an atom.

d) Transcription errors when the wrong chemical reaction occurs because, 
although it is unlikely, it is not impossible.

And who knows how many others.

Given the clear evidence that DNA dictates the form of a creature, it's 
inevitable that these random changes to the DNA will cause mutations, 
and it's equally inevitable that some of these mutations will be beneficial.

To bring God into the picture, you have to have Him either controlling 
the quantum mechanical processes, or actively removing the beneficial 
mutations in favour of specific changes He wants. That's a stretch, 
given that it seems clear that things would happen the way they are even 
in the absence of His intervention.

Sylvia

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#527355

FromDale <dale@dalekelly.org>
Date2015-10-21 22:21 -0400
Message-ID<8s66ok.fq8.17.1@news.alt.net>
In reply to#527337
On 10/21/2015 09:04 PM, Sylvia Else wrote:
> On 22/10/2015 11:12 AM, Dale wrote:
>> On 10/21/2015 06:45 PM, Sylvia Else wrote:
>>> On 22/10/2015 8:47 AM, Dale wrote:
>>>> assuming determinism means nothing is random, everything is bounded by
>>>> cause and effect
>>>
>>> Probably - but who is assuming determinism?
>>>
>>> What point are you actually trying to make here?
>>>
>>> Sylvia.
>>
>> maybe mutations can't be random
>
> Every indication we have is that quantum mechanical processes are
> random. That leaks into evolution by such processes as:
>
> a) Cosmic rays arriving at random and impacting DNA molecules.
>
> b) Radioactive decay in the environment and tissues surrounding DNA
> molecules randomly emitting particles that interact with DNA.
>
> c) Radioactive decay within DNA when it happens to contain an unstable
> isotope of an atom.
>
> d) Transcription errors when the wrong chemical reaction occurs because,
> although it is unlikely, it is not impossible.
>
> And who knows how many others.
>
> Given the clear evidence that DNA dictates the form of a creature, it's
> inevitable that these random changes to the DNA will cause mutations,
> and it's equally inevitable that some of these mutations will be
> beneficial.
>
> To bring God into the picture, you have to have Him either controlling
> the quantum mechanical processes, or actively removing the beneficial
> mutations in favour of specific changes He wants. That's a stretch,
> given that it seems clear that things would happen the way they are even
> in the absence of His intervention.
>
> Sylvia
>
>

lots of good stuff, I would have to study to reply well

I'll resort to philosophy and put the full reply on the back-burner for 
a short while

you can't put randomness in determinism, unless time is a continuum and 
random things always existed and need no cause, random things have no cause

even cyclical debates would have to attribute past tense of random 
nature to present, or they would fall into a cycle of last effect being 
first cause and random objects have no cause

finite time binds the end to the beginning and a random object cannot be 
bound to a beginning because it has no cause

it may be a question as to whether the reader is a determinist, your 
assertions of random nature fall into the non-determinist category 
except for the continuum time case

I at least believe in the psychological/sociological/psychiatric value 
of what may just be metaphor/parable/etc. of spirituality, its faith, I 
know it, but isn't empiricism the same? especially with no determinism? 
if there are a bunch of random things happening there is nothing to say 
the Sun won't rise tomorrow as it did today

-- 
Dale
http://www.dalekelly.org

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#527413 — Re: "Life" is virtual, not real.

FromSylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address>
Date2015-10-22 18:56 +1100
SubjectRe: "Life" is virtual, not real.
Message-ID<d8rj5jFgptdU1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#527355
On 22/10/2015 5:47 PM, Jeff-Relf.Me wrote:
> "Randomness" is ignorance, nothing more, nothing less.

In the field of quantum mechanics there are good reasons to think that 
the randomness is inherent, and that it is not lack of knowledge that 
prevents us from knowing what will happen and when.

That is, there is no underlying process about which we could in 
principle have knowledge, and thereby be able to look behind the randomness.

Since quantum randomness affects the world we perceive, that means that 
at least some of the randomness we see in the world is not just a matter 
of ignorance.

Sylvia.

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#527431 — Re: "Life" is virtual, not real.

From"Andrew" <andrew.321remov@usa.net>
Date2015-10-22 03:09 -0700
SubjectRe: "Life" is virtual, not real.
Message-ID<RLqdnemq0IMjKLXLnZ2dnUU7-L-dnZ2d@earthlink.com>
In reply to#527413
"Sylvia Else" wrote in message news:d8rj5jFgptdU1@mid.individual.net...

> Since quantum randomness affects the world we perceive,
> that means that at least some of the randomness we see in
> the world is not just a matter of ignorance.
>
> Sylvia.

"Useful as it is under everyday circumstances to say
that the world exists "out there" independent of us,
that view cannot longer be upheld. There is a strange
sense in which this is a "participatory universe."
                                         ~ John Wheeler, physicist


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#527507 — Re: "Life" is virtual, not real.

FromDale <dale@dalekelly.org>
Date2015-10-22 16:36 -0400
SubjectRe: "Life" is virtual, not real.
Message-ID<8s86ss.951.17.1@news.alt.net>
In reply to#527413
On 10/22/2015 03:56 AM, Sylvia Else wrote:
> On 22/10/2015 5:47 PM, Jeff-Relf.Me wrote:
>> "Randomness" is ignorance, nothing more, nothing less.
>
> In the field of quantum mechanics there are good reasons to think that
> the randomness is inherent, and that it is not lack of knowledge that
> prevents us from knowing what will happen and when.
>
> That is, there is no underlying process about which we could in
> principle have knowledge, and thereby be able to look behind the
> randomness.
>
> Since quantum randomness affects the world we perceive, that means that
> at least some of the randomness we see in the world is not just a matter
> of ignorance.
>
> Sylvia.
>

too often the term random is used

for instance, is zero-point energy testable? no, you would have to 
observe it and introducing yourself or a Casimir apparatus inot the 
environment cancels out the zero

quantum physics went led cosmology into philosophy when there was no 
answer to Schroedinger's Cat besides his point, maybe consciousness is a 
5th dimension

-- 
Dale
http://www.dalekelly.org

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#527600 — Re: "Life" is virtual, not real.

FromOlrik <olrik666@gmail.com>
Date2015-10-22 23:49 -0400
SubjectRe: "Life" is virtual, not real.
Message-ID<n0caju$e4e$2@dont-email.me>
In reply to#527507
Le 2015-10-22 16:36, Dale a écrit :
> On 10/22/2015 03:56 AM, Sylvia Else wrote:
>> On 22/10/2015 5:47 PM, Jeff-Relf.Me wrote:
>>> "Randomness" is ignorance, nothing more, nothing less.
>>
>> In the field of quantum mechanics there are good reasons to think that
>> the randomness is inherent, and that it is not lack of knowledge that
>> prevents us from knowing what will happen and when.
>>
>> That is, there is no underlying process about which we could in
>> principle have knowledge, and thereby be able to look behind the
>> randomness.
>>
>> Since quantum randomness affects the world we perceive, that means that
>> at least some of the randomness we see in the world is not just a matter
>> of ignorance.
>>
>> Sylvia.
>>
>
> too often the term random is used
>
> for instance, is zero-point energy testable? no, you would have to
> observe it and introducing yourself or a Casimir apparatus inot the
> environment cancels out the zero
>
> quantum physics went led cosmology into philosophy when there was no
> answer to Schroedinger's Cat besides his point, maybe consciousness is a
> 5th dimension

Eat well. Go to church. Love you family and friends.

Leave the rest the fuck alone.



-- 
Olrik
aa #1981
EAC Chief Food Inspector, Bacon Division

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#527562 — Re: The Ensemble Interpretation.

FromSylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address>
Date2015-10-23 11:32 +1100
SubjectRe: The Ensemble Interpretation.
Message-ID<d8tdhdFt15U1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#527413
On 22/10/2015 8:59 PM, Jeff-Relf.Me wrote:
> Sylvia_Else wrote: > there is no underlying process about which we
> could, > in principle, have knowledge, and thereby be able to > look
> behind the randomness [of quantum mechanics]. Ignorance is ignorance,
> Sylvia, no matter if the truth is attainable or not.

There's a distinction between a truth that exists, but is not 
discoverable, and a truth that is simply non-existent. Applying the 
unqualified word "ignorance" in the latter case is rather unhelpful.

For example, we do not know the highest prime number. This is not a case 
of ignorance - the reason we do not know it is that there is no such thing.

This seems to be case with quantum mechanics. Our inability to predict 
the outcome of a quantum interaction is not due to our failing to know 
something about the internal state of the particles involved, but arises 
because there is nothing there to know. The result is random, and that's 
all that can be said about it.

Sylvia

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#527564 — Re: The Ensemble Interpretation.

FromDale <dale@dalekelly.org>
Date2015-10-22 20:40 -0400
SubjectRe: The Ensemble Interpretation.
Message-ID<8s8l79.d6e.19.3@news.alt.net>
In reply to#527562
On 10/22/2015 08:32 PM, Sylvia Else wrote:
> On 22/10/2015 8:59 PM, Jeff-Relf.Me wrote:
>> Sylvia_Else wrote: > there is no underlying process about which we
>> could, > in principle, have knowledge, and thereby be able to > look
>> behind the randomness [of quantum mechanics]. Ignorance is ignorance,
>> Sylvia, no matter if the truth is attainable or not.
>
> There's a distinction between a truth that exists, but is not
> discoverable, and a truth that is simply non-existent. Applying the
> unqualified word "ignorance" in the latter case is rather unhelpful.
>
> For example, we do not know the highest prime number. This is not a case
> of ignorance - the reason we do not know it is that there is no such thing.


aren't the prime numbers a set whose cardinality is countable?




>
> This seems to be case with quantum mechanics. Our inability to predict
> the outcome of a quantum interaction is not due to our failing to know
> something about the internal state of the particles involved, but arises
> because there is nothing there to know. The result is random, and that's
> all that can be said about it.

not knowing doesn't equate with a definition?



>
> Sylvia
>


-- 
Dale
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#527567 — Re: The Ensemble Interpretation.

FromSylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address>
Date2015-10-23 11:50 +1100
SubjectRe: The Ensemble Interpretation.
Message-ID<d8tejjF143lU1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#527564
On 23/10/2015 11:40 AM, Dale wrote:
> On 10/22/2015 08:32 PM, Sylvia Else wrote:
>> On 22/10/2015 8:59 PM, Jeff-Relf.Me wrote:
>>> Sylvia_Else wrote: > there is no underlying process about which we
>>> could, > in principle, have knowledge, and thereby be able to > look
>>> behind the randomness [of quantum mechanics]. Ignorance is ignorance,
>>> Sylvia, no matter if the truth is attainable or not.
>>
>> There's a distinction between a truth that exists, but is not
>> discoverable, and a truth that is simply non-existent. Applying the
>> unqualified word "ignorance" in the latter case is rather unhelpful.
>>
>> For example, we do not know the highest prime number. This is not a case
>> of ignorance - the reason we do not know it is that there is no such
>> thing.
>
>
> aren't the prime numbers a set whose cardinality is countable?

Yes, since they're a subset of the natural numbers, which are countable 
by definition.

But being countable doesn't mean finite. That there is no highest prime 
number was proved over two millennia ago (by Euclid, who was a pretty 
bright lad).

> not knowing doesn't equate with a definition?

If by that you mean that not knowing is the definition of "ignorant". I 
wouldn't agree. I would consider it limited to those situations where 
the ignorant person could, at least in principle, otherwise know the 
thing they're ignorant of.

Sylvia.

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