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Random number generator - is it even possible? (was: God, Aliens, and Chaos ...)
Dartful Dodger:
--- Quote from: screaming on April 13, 2005, 02:29:00 pm ---is there some other technically superior reason we are not random?
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RayB:
--- Quote from: screaming on April 13, 2005, 03:22:57 pm ---That's a pretty good analogy and I can see why "intelligent beings" like humans may have thought that way initially, but I can't see why we've still hung onto these ideas so long, especially through the past couple thousand years. Great technological, physiological and psychological acheivements have been made since the dawn of man that would seem to make us reason it out a lot more than we already have.
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Because there is and always will be "the unknown", no matter how much we know. However you should note that we've gone from beliefs that encompassed multiple gods down to mostly beliefs in one god. So that in itself shows that as we've gained knowledge through time, the necessity for "gods" as explanations for that which we don't understand, has diminished greatly.
And we're not that advanced yet. You overestimate the intelligence of people on this planet. Despite our accomplishments, what percentage of the populace is responsible for the truly great advances and discoveries in our history? A miniscule percentage. So where does that leave the rest of us? The average person on this planet only knows what's been immediately passed on to them. The average person isn't knowledge-seeking, and inquisitive. We learn what we have to, or want to, and then go about our lives. That leaves ALOT of holes in our collective knowledge of the world, existence, how things work. So we're still very primative. We just have better tools at our disposal, and a better, but very incomplete base of knowledge. Take those things away and we'd all be barely surviving in huts.
screaming:
Yeah, I'd just like to point out that in that sea of tangents I called a post, my point wasn't actually a theological one. It was mathematical, biological, and a technical question.
If we as humans are not random, can we in fact, create something that is?
-sab
RayB:
Who says we're not random?
;D
screaming:
--- Quote from: RayB on April 13, 2005, 09:42:31 pm ---Who says we're not random?
;D
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Chaos theory, remember?