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Old 09-05-2005, 01:58 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by duck0987
If true randomness does exist I do not believe that it could actually be observed, because by our observation of the phenomenon we would be influencing the system, thus the system would cease to be random.
Our observation of that particular event is also random and influences it in a random way, keeping its randomness. Mayhap everything in the universe, including ourselves and our actions, is random, and we are simply good at predicting certain random phenomena, but not others.
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