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I take "random" just being a description of the predictor, that they lack sufficient information to make a determinate prediction. ie., I take probability to b
by mjburgess 8y ago
I take "random" just being a description of the predictor, that they lack sufficient information to make a determinate prediction.
ie., I take probability to be only an epistemic description of confidence given information. And therefore randomness just a lack.
A physical system may be "ontologically random" in the sense that there is no info its possible to obtain to make a determinate prediction -- but that isn't randomness (which is epistemic).
That's "physical informationlessness" which is an (alleged) feature of a physical system that leads to n "inevitable randomness" in our predictions of it.