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SnapcasterWizard t1_j8sr3d8 wrote

Reply to comment by Auctorion in Free Will Is Only an Illusion if You Are, Too by greghickey5

>totally random and non-deterministic, e.g. radioactive decay

Its not totally random, from the perspective of an individual atom it appears to be. But if you have enough atoms then there is a clear non-randomness to the decay.

Look at it like this, if it were truly random, then different atoms couldn't have different half lives.

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Auctorion t1_j8ss3va wrote

Totally random doesn’t mean 100% absolute maximum random, just as free will doesn’t mean the ability to ignore causality. It means that the specific moment of decay cannot, by any known means, be predicted even if you know the window.

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