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kleer001 on April 14, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Wolfram Physics Project

No, but it can produce something that's unpredictable from the original code. And that's spitting distance from random.

tomxor on April 14, 2020 | [–]

Yup, "unpredictability" or more precisely computational irreducibility is when things tend to get interesting... and this happens deterministically just fine.

kleer001 on April 15, 2020 | [–]

In addition as soon as a system comes in contact with the real world randomness is nearly free and easy to get.

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