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Not planned.A branch falls from a tree during a windstorm and crushes a squirrel. Not planned by anyone.
The squirrel didn't plan to get crushed. For him, it was random. Bad luck. Not caused by an act of will.Not planned.
But how is it random? I mean the wind has a cause. The branch was weak for some physical reason. The squirrel was there for some reason when it saw the acorn under the tree. These events all had their reasons to happen at that time.
For him in his ignorance of things it seemed random.The squirrel didn't plan to get crushed. For him, it was random. Bad luck. Not caused by an act of will.
You are forgetting about the quantum mechanics wavefunction collapse that resulted in an atom appearing just where it did to trigger the subsequent events leading to the branch falling. The location of that atom was totally random; as in, not determined, not planned.Not planned.
But how is it random? I mean the wind has a cause. The branch was weak for some physical reason. The squirrel was there for some reason when it saw the acorn under the tree. These events all had their reasons to happen at that time.
Could be. More likely the branch collapsed as a result of macro scale events not triggered by any particular atomic behaviorYou are forgetting about the quantum mechanics wavefunction collapse that resulted in an atom appearing just where it did to trigger the subsequent events leading to the branch falling. The location of that atom was totally random; as in, not determined, not planned.
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Not totally random, stochastic. The wavefunction is a probability density function that typically has only a few significant peaks of likelihood.You are forgetting about the quantum mechanics wavefunction collapse that resulted in an atom appearing just where it did to trigger the subsequent events leading to the branch falling. The location of that atom was totally random; as in, not determined, not planned.
Everything that happens is at the atomic level (the electrostatic forces between electrons and protons which bind molecules together) in which quantum mechanics rules.More likely the branch collapsed as a result of macro scale events not triggered by any particular atomic behavior
Events happen at all levels, not just the one you prefer to focus on. QM randomness likely doesnt cause the fall of the branch.Everything that happens is at the atomic level (the electrostatic forces between electrons and protons which bind molecules together) in which quantum mechanics rules.
That's true, but as Ken Wilson proved back in the '80s, it is not necessary to understand the behaviours of underlying levels when dealing with properties at a higher level of abstraction, as they have their own emergent laws of behaviour that encapsulate the bulk activities of the lower levels; so you don't need to know the details of quantum mechanics to do basic chemistry, nor chemistry to do biology, nor biology to do sociology, and so-on.Everything that happens is at the atomic level (the electrostatic forces between electrons and protons which bind molecules together) in which quantum mechanics rules.
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