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Ep. 98: How humans came to see (and shape) the future. | Byron Reese

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What Is Randomness?

In antiquity, they didn't have a notion of what that meant. And the implications of that are a littlea disturbing, if that for let's take a benign example first. If you had asked me, how many times ir you going to come up heads? I would say, can't really know. But in truth, the odds that it's going to be less than 400 are greater than 600. That's like randomness, and yet there's the certainty that is in it.

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