[derptacious]

Great analysis. Is there even a theory of what causes randomness? Where does it come from? Why should we believe it is discrete from "unpredictability?" Even in random number generators, the game is about pulling from widely unpredictable sources to generate entropy - the word "random" should maybe be a misnomer. I've never believed in anything besides unpredictability in various scopes of systems. By scopes of systems, I mean, in some contexts of analysis it makes sense to deem a system temporarily closed to analyze certain parts of it. For example, the earth is not a closed system, but for some discussions and analysis it makes sense to simply treat it like one.

I don't know why it is so hard for this description - or paradigm - to proliferate to the masses and various pop writers. Writers so often are tying human consciousness to QM experimentation as if it were something special. The fact of the matter is: in each QM experiment the only things really interacting with the experiment are the atoms of the measurement apparatuses, sensors, and whatnot. In the case of the double slit experiment, we could have them "interpreted" automatically - and say, kill a cat if an interference pattern is created and not kill it if one is not made. Making the discussion about consciousness is a distraction from the core issues.