> the presence of randomness does not necessarily preclude something from being computational in nature In the case of single events, it does preclude somethin

> the presence of randomness does not necessarily preclude something from being computational in nature In the case of single events, it does preclude something from being computational in nature, if you take unpredictability as the hallmark of randomness. Predictability and repeatability are built in to computation and built out of randomness, as it were. In one stringent definition of randomness (that of algorithmic information theory) it is literally defined by reference to its uncomputability.