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Wait a minute, we're getting side tracked here. I think the question boils down to two choices, Soft Randomness and Hard Randomness
Where Soft Randomness states that Something is random if it is unpredictable under normal circumstances
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Hard Randomness states that something can only be truely random if it is unpredictable under ANY circumstances.
Where 'circumstances' are the practicalities/possibilities of gathering all the bits of information necessary to determine what something is going to do.
I think it's reasonable to place things like dice rolls, roulette spins and coin tosses in the soft category, and other things like quantum behaviours into the hard category. Though I would argue (from a point of faith rather than anything concrete) that even the quantum world might operate on the 'hidden variable' principle, nudging even that back into the soft category.
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