Re: Why is Randomness so Hard to Prove?
I think you might find my approach to this question appealing...
I believe determinism and free will can coexist. The reason is that humans and other living beings have a soul (or consciousness if you prefer) which operates in a different dimension from what we observe in the physical (non-living) world.
It is possible that the world of the soul does have free will while the non-living world is deterministic. Some say QM proves that the physical world is not deterministic, but only the Copenhagen interpretation does that. The many-worlds interpretation is both widely believed by leading physicists and compatible with determinism, so the question is far from resolved.
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