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This is pressing two letters, and you're explicitly told to press them in a way which feels random (which is going to be culturally determined). Aristotle would
by clock_tower 10y ago
This is pressing two letters, and you're explicitly told to press them in a way which feels random (which is going to be culturally determined). Aristotle would say that this is about habit, not free will -- unless you're opting to ignore the instructions.
- CamperBob2 10y agoCan you elaborate on how one's perception of randomness is subject to cultural bias? You do have to realize that frequent runs of repeated characters are expected to appear in a truly random sequence, but that's more a matter of basic reasoning (or perhaps education) than culture.
- Camillo 10y agoThere is a strong cultural bias for believing that everything is culturally determined.
- clock_tower 10y ago"FFFFFFFF" or "DDDDDDD" are random sequences if they're generated by a random process, but we [note: I wonder who 'we' means] expect "random" to mean "frequently changing" or "chaotic-looking". This might easily be more about formal education in statistics than about culture, though. I'd expect people from any culture we know about to have the intuitive expectations I mentioned -- identifying randomness with chaos.
- ikeboy 10y agoNot quite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmically_random_sequence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmically_random_sequenc...