It's an interesting way to think about it, but I have to say that even after reading what you've typed I don't really see it. Although Newton and contemporarie

It's an interesting way to think about it, but I have to say that even after reading what you've typed I don't really see it. Although Newton and contemporaries had mathematical rigour, there always seemed to be order in the universe. If you push on a cart softly, it moves slowly. If you push on it hard, it moves quickly. In fact, Gallileo had to show that heavier things do not fall faster than light things as it was imagined to be. Never did we drop a ball and expect its speed to be random. Even the word "random" comes from the mid 1600s and it comes from the idea to run quickly (i.e. without paying attention to a purpose). I don't even think the concept of randomness as we see it was a concept long ago. Everything was either a result of something else, or pre-ordained. Things that you couldn't explain were "God's purpose". Something with no purpose and no mechanism would be pretty alien to early thinkers, I think.