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I had similar thoughts but was too embarrassed to ask as I am not a mathematician. Basically is randomness a human idea/concept or does it really exist? This i
by agentgt 10y ago
I had similar thoughts but was too embarrassed to ask as I am not a mathematician.
Basically is randomness a human idea/concept or does it really exist? This is sort of along the lines of whether or not Math really exists (mathematical structures) or is just a human way of modeling the universe (Mario Livio and few others have written some novels on this).
I don't know the answer but it seems to have a habit of getting philosophical rather quickly.
- marxidad 10y agoVSauce: What is Random? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rIy0xY99a0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rIy0xY99a0
- adrianN 10y agoIt gets a lot easier if you restrict yourself to a definition of random that puts some restrictions on the entity that needs to predict the events. If you for example say that you can only spent a polynomial amount of time looking at the first k bits to predict the k+1-th bit, then you have a rigorous definition where you can prove that such randomness exists (at least using standard complexity theoretic assumptions).