Well in sequential state machines (computers), true randomness has to come from the outside. I have the feeling that it's the same for the universe as a whole:

Well in sequential state machines (computers), true randomness has to come from the outside. I have the feeling that it's the same for the universe as a whole: there is no mechanism which can make true randomness- it has to be a source of information from outside of the system. I suppose it makes no real difference if that's the case, or if you just call randomness an intrinsic property of some parts of the system. BTW, related questions: is the universe finite? Is the universe discrete or continuous (or better, do you need infinite information to represent it)?