Determinism

In computer science random numbers are generated using data that's likely to be different each time it's ran, such as the current timestamp or values from memory. Whatever value it pulls would only ever be able to generate one specific number. The only way to apply any more randomness to said number is to apply more calculations to it based on changing data. It can get more complex or harder to reverse engineer, but at it's core it's impossible to generate a truly random number.

By aiming a camera sensor, or other sensor, at a radioactive material, it's possible to detect stray alpha particles it emits and use their X,Y data captured on a sensor as input for generating a random number. This is introducing a natural aspect into the equation, but, what about being natural actually creates an sort of variation? Are natural occurances verifiably random if a computer program verifiably isn't?

Half-lives are measurable lengths. Each isotope has a verified range of time that it will most likely exist for until half of it decays. This is a set unchageable value. The randomness that's seen in nature is seen as random because it reflects the same randomness that we are able to produce. If I ask you to think of a random number between one and ten your answer could depend on any number of things. Millions upon billions of things you aren't consciously even thinking about. I wonder how many of these apects do we truly have any choice on, how much "choice" even exists, or if everything is just in response to whatever else is influencing it, like a set of dominos sprawling out from the center of the universe.

This may just come from thoughts of when I'm being pulling along through the system, and feel like I'm only operating how I "need" to to keep going, but if I'm just my inputs, than do I truly have any choice in anything? I could just be another collection of reactions that responds to its surroundings how it naturally does.

Origination of Variation

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Efficiency

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