Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!ll-xn!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!teknowledge-vaxc!sri-unix!quintus!ok From: ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Playing dice with the universe. Message-ID: <453@quintus.UUCP> Date: 21 Sep 88 02:24:30 GMT References: <1369@garth.UUCP> <2346@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <1383@garth.UUCP> <372@quintus.UUCP> <1390@garth.UUCP> <388@quintus.UUCP> <7059@aw.sei.cmu.edu> <40141@linus.UUCP> Sender: news@quintus.UUCP Reply-To: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Inc. Lines: 9 In article <40141@linus.UUCP> bwk@mbunix (Kort) writes: >I don't know if God plays dice with the universe. But I do know that >us humans do play dice, and the outcome of our games does effect the >course of history. Casting lots is as old as recorded history. Yes, we humans play dice. But that doesn't prove they deliver _RANDOM_ results. "Unpredictable", "random", and "independent" are distinguishable properties. Dice could be as determined as the digits of pi and still be as humanly unpredictable.