This is wicked.Even has pictures to keep you interested. Basically, real-world numbers drawn randomly from almanacs or whatever do not possess the same distributional properties as numbers created randomly by a PC. Indicating all sorts of complex patterns going on in the real world. And yet, that famous guy (not Einstein) proved a while back that on some quantum level or something, everything really is intrinsically random. So as we zoom out, it would appear that patterns - real patterns - develop and sustain themselves. The patterns are themselves real things. Which means we ain't living in no reductionist deterministic universe. But that doesn't also mean we are free willed. Just that the world is more than the sum of it's parts. Or rather more likely, it has parts we can't observe or hope to understand (yet). Woohoo!
I wish you all a fabulous weekend. Jozi will be sans electricity for most of it, because you vokkin Kaapies can't keep your nukular power station in one piece, and because Eskom is actually only a marginally less kak company than SAA and Telkom. Funny that they were all once or still are state-owned monopolies.
The Doctor.
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