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To: Neocon who wrote (443)	3/1/2002 11:08:31 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

Mental shorthands designed for popularisation are not the actuality of science. The randomness may lie in the particular starting values, in the natural laws we happen to have, but the complexity that derives is not 'random' as such. If you scatter a billion dots of paint randomly on each of a billion different canvases, then discard all but the one that most resembles something - is that 'design'? If you can only scatter according to certain rules, is that random? Check the productions of the 'game of life' programs - incredibly simple algorithms produce astoundingly complex patterns, given time. BUt they are 'random', nevertheless - in a very specific sense.