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Free Willy

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Re: Searching for GOD...
« Reply #52150 on: Today at 10:02:45 AM »
So that it splits has a reason; when it splits doesn't, or it wouldn't be random. That you can average out random events to get some sort of general sense doesn't mean that there's a reason.

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In each case of indeterminancy we sort out whether something is indeterminant because we don’t have the Knowledge, because we can’t have the knowledge vis Heisenberg or is truly random.

I believe philosophers introduce what are known as demons, entities imbued with the knowledge we lack.

Are you saying that in the case of radioactive decay, such a demon would not know and subsequently we don’t know because we don’t know?

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Re: Searching for GOD...
« Reply #52151 on: Today at 10:47:44 AM »
Are you saying that in the case of radioactive decay, such a demon would not know and subsequently we don’t know because we don’t know?

According to the bare mathematics of QM, there is nothing more for any 'demon' to know. The wave-function is everything that can be known and that only gives probabilities.
x(∅ ∈ x ∧ ∀y(yxy ∪ {y} ∈ x))

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« Reply #52152 on: Today at 01:35:04 PM »
According to the bare mathematics of QM, there is nothing more for any 'demon' to know. The wave-function is everything that can be known and that only gives probabilities.
This then leaves the exact time of decay unknown.