Category: Metaphysics
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So random: The universe is probably stochastic but we’re bad at accepting it
Due to our compulsion to see patterns everywhere, we’re bad at recognizing true randomness when we see it. At a more fundamental level, we don’t even know if true randomness even exists. The radioactive decay of the element Americium is used to generate random numbers. A Geiger counter detects the…
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Computational Irreducibility: An underappreciated concept to understand the universe
Computational irreducibility is a profound concept about how the world works. In many complex systems, the only way to know what will happen is to let them run. Simple rules can produce unpredictable complexity, and when no shortcut can predict the outcome faster than executing each step, the system is…
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