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Conway talks a little about this distinction in his talk at Google, at around 40 minutes: https://youtu.be/r1bDSlt1n9M?t=2401 https://youtu.be/r1bDSlt1n9M?t=240
by dplavery92 8y ago
Conway talks a little about this distinction in his talk at Google, at around 40 minutes:
https://youtu.be/r1bDSlt1n9M?t=2401 https://youtu.be/r1bDSlt1n9M?t=2401
The crux is that randomness is indistinguishable from a large collection of pre-determined hidden variables (imagine rolling all the dice for all of the outcomes of Physics ahead of time), but not all of the behaviors of quantum mechanics can be accounted for by (local) hidden variables (Bell's theorem.)