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Re:Physics and Five Problems in the Philosophy of Mind by davatk on Friday February 12, 2010 @05:26PM (#1121975)
Why not? The Miller-Rabin primality test is both random and, for all intents and purposes, predictable.
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Re:Physics and Five Problems in the Philosophy of Mind by samd on Friday February 12, 2010 @07:54PM (#1122279)
How predictable? Do you mean that for any input x you can predict y?
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Re:Physics and Five Problems in the Philosophy of Mind by davatk on Friday February 12, 2010 @11:25PM (#1122538)
I should probably stress that I agree with you on pretty much everything except that last sentence.

As for the Miller-Rabin test, it's basically a case where you can get a correct answer with an arbitrarily low probability of error. So I guess the tie in is that just because our decisions are predictable (or at least mostly so), doesn't mean there isn't randomness involved.

I'm starting to suspect that I'm responding to an interpretation you didn't intend, though.

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