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Politics : Should God be replaced?

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To: Frederick Smart who wrote (12192)	4/25/2002 2:58:47 PM
From: Bill Fischofer	Read Replies (1) of 28931

Re: Randomness Chaitin has written extensively on this subject and I invite you to read some of it if you'd like to discuss it. From an information theoretic standpoint a sequence is random if it is its own smallest representation. This is another way of interpreting the commonse-sense notion of randomness being equivalent to unpredictability. A predictable sequence is representable by a program of much smaller size which can generate it. Truly random sequences cannot be produced by any method more compact than writing them out in full. When one applies these notion to 'reality' it becomes immediately apparent that the future has not been written. Only a truly random universe it its own smallest representation and can support the existence of free will.

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