The notion of randomness

I like to think about the definition of words, and why the words where ever made. One of them is random. "Unsystematically" is it's synonym. I don't believe in both definitions of the word. Everything happens for a reason. I reckon Neanderthalers said that to each other, wondering why there was thunder and lightning outside. Throw a dice, and with enough calculating, you could predict on which side it would land.

In short: The notion of randomness violates the scientific method, and in reality, it does not occur anywhere in the known universe.

Think about it. Sometimes you (try) to do random things for a reason. So when I ask you to pick a random number between 1 and 10, you do that for a reason (to prove me wrong?). More importantly, you do it with reason. In your mind you think about choosing the most random number you can imagine, and by doing so, making it unrandom (is that a word?). And when you must pick a random card from a deck that's laid out wide, you don't just pick one randomly, because you can't. You think. You think to yourself, look to the far left and far right, the middle. And eventually you'll pick one. But that choice isn't random.

It's like this with everything. Sometimes you can just see art being made up as if it was meant to be random but you can see a pattern. 'Planned randomism'.

So it's no surprise to me that  nobody has ever managed to present a repeatable experiment that supports the notion of randomness existing anywhere. Nobody has everproduced or observed any phenomenon of any type, anywhere, that has been objectively confirmed to be "random."

Actually, the whole idea of "randomness" is nothing but an unscientific, irrational superstition.

That's it. Ta.

 

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