<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">I don't think that any creature performs random behaviors. Just imagine a person behaving randomly: he sits, he sings a line of a song, he twitches his right foot, and so on. THis is more or less random and you never see anything like it, even in psychotic fits, which I have observed.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 10, 2023 at 6:09 PM Stathis Papaioannou <<a href="mailto:stathisp@gmail.com">stathisp@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 11 Jun 2023 at 00:04, William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I have read that there are people in science who think that thinking things in terms of cause and effect is old hat, or should be. We do have a strong tendency to use cause and effect as as understanding of what is going on. Maybe these people just want to know 'what' and 'how' and leave 'why' out of the question. Nondeterminists. bill w</div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If it’s not determined it’s random. It is still an open question in physics whether there are random events at the quantum level.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)" dir="auto"></div></div></blockquote></div></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">Stathis Papaioannou</div>
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