Sentences with phrase «only by the randomness»

That's bound to turn around, if only by the randomness of one - lost records.

Not exact matches

there's really no room for the concept of an independent entity possessed of «will» in a worldview shaped by cause and effect; the only place for «will» to retreat to is the zone of true randomness, of complete uncertainty, which means that truly free will as such must be completely inscrutible [sic]... Statistical laws govern the decay of a block of uranium, but whether or not this atom of uranium chooses to fission in this instant is a completely unpredictable event — fundamentally unpredictable, something which simply can not be known — which is equally good evidence for the proposition that it's God's (or the atom's) will whether it splits or remains whole, as for the proposition that it's random chance.

If you mean that we counter creationists arguments that evolution runs counter to the second law of thermodynamics by saying that that law only applies to heat transfer and randomness in a closed (gaseous) system, well, that is true.

For readers, the story of an unremarkable, and only slightly rebellious, teenager brings home the crude randomness of the destruction suffered by many and refreshes our sense of bewilderment.

As described in the exhibition's catalog by Dana Miller, The Whitney Museum's Director of the Collection, DeFeo's experiments, which the artist described as play, «meant not only taking risks, but also, at key moments, sharing authorship with forces of nature, randomness, or accident.»

Lozano - Hemmer expands on this notion by reminding us about the impossibility of true randomness in a machinic universe where any pretension of autonomy in a program is only a simulation.