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What is NOT Random?

by Veritasium

When I first got into studying physics, and the conservation of energy and deterministic nature of closed systems, one of the very first thoughts I had was "wait so if…

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When I first got into studying physics, and the conservation of energy and deterministic nature of closed systems, one of the very first thoughts I had was "wait so if you can get all of the information and a super-magical computer capable of running the universal simulation, you can know the future? basically, everything is predetermined??".

No. This video exactly shows why. The title might be a little vague - initially I thought it would argue if there was true randomness or not in the universe, as humans are biased by previous states and computers are only pseudo-random. I was wrong - it's about a different kind of randomness - the behavior, the universe, and the future.

Still, makes me wonder - do we actually have a free will, or only a free won't? And if we do, how come it's a free WILL if it originates from quantum "randomness"? imo, a very good video for sparking further thoughts about the existence and the self itself.

And it comes with some very very nice perks - old youtube, old veritasium, and a very Vsauce-y tone from Vsauce himself. W collab.

- aleksi

Published by Veritasium on YouTube.

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Nothing AI-generated in this one.