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Re:The 8000th Busy Beaver number eludes ZF set theory (2016) by gowld on Thursday May 03, 2018 @03:39PM (#16989155)
It depends if you believe in free will, or if you think we are just entropic particles and waves.

The more precise statement is that you'd never encounter this number by uniform sampling within the range of objects of (some reasonable choice of finite size)

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Re:The 8000th Busy Beaver number eludes ZF set theory (2016) by burke on Thursday May 03, 2018 @03:40PM (#16989171)
No, it doesn't. "Random chance" in this context clearly implies the exclusion of goal-oriented interference from intelligent entities, whether you ascribe any special mystical meaning to "intelligence" or not.
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