Nick writes: “But when you go on to say that nature is determined by unknowable causes that’s an oxymoron. To the extent that anything is caused, by whatever means, it reveals its causes in its behavior. To the extent that events are random, no cause is revealed and no cause exists.”
The apparently random cause could have been mixed-in long ago, far out of scope from a contemporary experiment. So to understand the behavior, you’d have to go back in time and follow everything (sub-atomically) that followed. It doesn’t mean there is no cause, just that it is meaningless in practice to talk about it – it is too far away. Marcus
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