Thread: Why is Randomness so Hard to Prove?
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Old 12-14-2005, 09:56 PM
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Default Re: Why is Randomness so Hard to Prove?
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The original poster claimed that QM could be used to disprove determinism.


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QM is not inconsistent with determinism and could never be used to disprove determinism. To see why this is true, imagine a deterministic simulation of a QM universe

[unless you make non-determinism an assumption of QM but its not a neccesary assumption]

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