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by Turfie 1559 days ago
It's never random. All is just a process of causes and conditions, albeit a very complex one. We just can't track all the variables.
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At the root of medicine is biochemistry, and at the root of chemistry is quantum physics: the formation and breaking of chemical bonds is at core random events shaped by probabilities. We can only say how likely events are, not which ones will happen when.
Or rather even if it is deterministic, it might as well be random to us.
Sure, in the same sense that a roulette table or a deck of shuffled cards isn't actually random, it's just cause and effect.
It's random for all practical purposes if you can't figure out the causes.