From Paul Loader, University of Sussex
Stewart says: “Quantum stuff apart, we can state with assurance that there really is no such thing as randomness.”
What we call the randomness of an event may be relative to a particular level of description of that event, but this isn’t to say such randomness doesn’t exist. What we generally mean by randomness is unpredictability from a typical or relevant standpoint. This standpoint is rarely that of an omniscient being, so whatever discoveries are made at a micro level, people will continue quite justifiably to describe some things as random and others as not.
Brighton, Sussex, UK
