Why it Looks Like Randomness Is Built Into This Universe

Everything moves in freedom. Therefore, you can’t predict what everything does. This is how a universe indirectly guarantees freedom on an individual level (and free will).

Besides that, even in normal stochastics, throwing a fair die never gives an exact 1/6 outcome in reality. I mean, the Earth could explode one second from now. Since you don’t know all outcomes (billions besides 1/6—literally everything is possible), I wouldn’t use chance to describe how things move on an individual level.

For the sake of argument, let’s assume I am right, and everything lives in freedom. That would automatically mean that even if you put all variables of the universe into a computer, you still wouldn’t be able to predict the future. And the fact that you can’t predict how particles move on a small scale—and therefore the future—proves we live in freedom.

Thinking everything is deterministic and moves from A to B is a stage every smart person plateaus on for a while. Until you realize it doesn’t work like that at all. It sounds logical (even me typing this is part of the ‘no free will’ argument), but real life isn’t like that. I mean, sometimes I try to predict what the people around me will do, and then they do something so unbelievably unexpected.

 

If you could show me an experiment with the exact same outcome every single time,
I would be unbelievably worried. That would mean you could put all variables—things we know and things we don’t know, billions and billions of them, the whole universe—into the same exact state twice and get the same result.

This is not possible. Therefore, when you look closely, you get a similar output, but not the exact same.