I have read the following very beautiful explanation of randomness:

You may very well assume that the universe is deterministic, i.e. one thing follows after another, but even if that is so, you still end up with infinitely many stars in the night sky, and you cannot predict their patterns and shapes from mere computational-prediction alone. You need to venture out into the night and see the stars for yourself in order to find their arrangement and yourself in the middle of it. That is what randomness is all about: The stars could have any pattern, but they have exactly one. The same applies for humans: Humans could have any character, but they have exactly one. The true human character causes free-will, and that is what you and me experience as the wonder of life.

I understand, but please see my other comment under this post. I explained it there.

I always understand “free will” to mean “figure out who you really are”. I.e., every person has a certain character from birth, and that just unfolds throughout life. “Free will” is about figuring that out.

What i don’t get here is what the existence of a “creator” would have to do with abortion. Just as an example, what if there is a god. What does that tell us about everyday life, or about abortion?

It would be very well conceivable to me that there is a god, but they have no opinion about whether we do abortions or not. How are these things connected?

What you just uttered is a totally valid belief in my eyes :)

Beliefs don’t always have to be based on mere intuition alone. It’s totally fine to be able to back up what one believes with arguments.

do you believe that randomness exists?

The universe and everything in it was made for a reason.

I wonder how randomness would fit into this. I believe that randomness does exist and that order/causality has its limits.

The world is made of magic, it just differentiated into so many forms, that one of them is science and that’s what many people believe is all there is.

I feel in the mood to explain more about this:

Similar to european school’s history classes tend to be focused on european history (we call that “eurocentrism”), our worldview is focused on humans, i think that’s called “anthropocentrism”. While humans are important, it’s not everything there is. There’s also plants and other living beings, and in fact there’s many more of them than of us. I try to consider that.

I’m calling the unity of all life “magic”, i came up with that and it’s supposed to be a play-on-words on the german word “Magen” (stomach) (representing that plants and animals are connected through an important relationship that is food). Also the stomach is the organ most physiologically/spatially central in the human body, in my opinion. So i imagine that everything’s in the human is built around that “central” organ that is the stomach. That makes sense as the intake of food is the root of all animal existence, that enables animal’s existence in the first place. Thus “everything is created from the stomach outwards”, as supportive organs to help the stomach collect and digest food.

I think Turing’s Test was only about the quality of AI. But there’s still outside-of-the-digital-world characteristics that distinguish humans from AI. For example, you’d be able to walk up to a server administrator and speak to them in person so they give you an account on their server. AI could never do that.

I have the idea that public libraries could host fediverse instance. Just register an account on their server, then go there physically and they will approve the account. You don’t need to show them your ID or even tell them your name. They just see that you’re a fleshy human. Now, other people who federate with this server can know that any account registered on it is at least associated to a human. That human can still use AI to post on that account, but at least there’s not millions of bot accounts in circulation.

Find your inner voice and listen to it. Youtube is all crap. Don’t listen to parental advice. Teachers are not always right. Listen to your inner voice.

i don’t trust any messenger system that uses the word “serverless”. such a word is misleading, at best, and a scam more likely.