| Slimebeast said: I don't believe in the concept of randomness. Is there anything in our world that has been proven to behave randomly? In quantum physics I believe the obsrved particles acting what looks to be randomly (or particle reactions that seem to have certain % chances to have different outcomes) is actually caused by unknown factors. |
I dont think free will is really an issue here. When a loving grandma or a child molestor think about doing bad things, they utilize the same part of their brain to come to a decision. Primarily, what matters is their perception of the cost-benefit ratio of their action (chance they will be punished, empathy towards the victim, what society will think of them, and so forth).
Is the cost-benefit ratio random? I think not, but even so there are too many variables for us to think that it isnt random. If you are playing a game, the roll of dice is considered random because there was no means to accurately explain the outcome, but if you had a computer that utilized calculus and physics to accurately predict the outcome of the dice, then there is no use to think of it as random. Similary, computers cannot do random things, they use a complex equation based on time to give outputs that make us think they are random, but if you changed the equation and made it less complex (say the roll of the dice was decided by the minute and not the millisecond) it wouldnt take long for us to realize that it is not random. I would always roll a 5 at 5:05 so the concept of randomness is gone.
As Slimebeat says, the same may go for quantum physics. Quantum physics may not be random, but for all intensive purposes we might as well think of it as random.
