What is randomness?

Antigod

Lack of knowledge to see the pattern

Impossible, not real.

If randomness is actually deterministic, can there be a free will?

Uninformed complexity

>>439125

Is the result of a well-formed dice random?
A dice being thrown has many factors affecting how it will land and move, determining the outcome.
The person that throws the dice contributes to these factors, but is not himself a direct factor that determines the outcome.
The result a dice gives is not by any means random per se. However, the human factor that is included makes it random. Even if you knew all the informations regarding how the dice will be thrown and how the air blows, the dice is still subject to human interaction which the human himself can not perfectly control.


Is a random number generator random?
If I play 2 different games who both use a RNG, the calculations for both "random" numbers are strictly dependant on the calculation processes done.
You can pat yourself on the back when you achieve a high enough complexity so that it's next to impossible to figure out the results from your generator, but it still won't make it a random number.
This can be proven quite easily by taking samples.
Despite not being able to figure out what the next result will be, a player who has been using the rng constantly will be able to tell you 1 or more patterns of the generator.
As such, he can very well give you sub-patterns that will indeed occur within a large enough sample of let's say 100, or 1000 should be enough to get a precise result.

The centre of randomness revolves always around the human from people's perspective. Is it random for a human? Not: Is it random at all?

Something that is objectively random does not exist.

A necessity for patterns

>>439125
Ignorance of science and God's will.

>>439125
Information

lack of causality in a sequence of events

>>439125
An existing process that causes major butthurt in most people.

>>439172
Prove it.

Randomness can't exist because Muh God controls everything. Praise Jeebus

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Random is chaos. And chaos is nothing but another system we do not understand. A pattern is formed but the law determining the pattern remains a mystery. It's like being in a labyrinth (chaos, confusion) and seing the labyrith from above, as a geometrical pattern (harmony, order). It's all a question of different pespective for randomness to become coherent.

>>439125

Ignorance.

>>439147
It's weird isn't it? Which side will a coin land on? Even chance either way. How many heads are you likely to get us you flip a coin 1000 times? About 500.

Why does the law of large numbers work? No one can say, but it is a law anyway.

>>439125
A human concept describing their inability to innately understand something

>>439125
what you just did.
what i just did.

>>439172
The singular of dice is die, you faggot.
And it's incredibly obvious that you know nothing about random number generation. Look up TRNGs.

>>441076
Isn't all that based on the position of the coin and its properties and the force you apply to it when you flip it and outside forces like wind idk.
Then it isn't that random after all.

>>439374
Question everything.
But it's true that we can't answer everything, like how the universe was born. That may be the only thing with no reason behind.