Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-37726433-20181210160210/@comment-37322933-20181214165234

Prince Andor wrote: Well, if you truly wanted me to say something random, you wouldn't have asked me to think about anything. Once you ask me to think, nothing I say can be random, as it is determined by what I am thinking. '''Yep. Completely true. '''This thread, therefore, is a lie as none of these responses are truly random, as everyone who responded was thinking, causing their brain to select something to type, thus eliminating the randomness of the thread. '''I would agree with that. Now, a good way to fix this issue would be to completly rename the thread to not include any thought, there'''fore increasing the randomness. '''impossible. One cannot simply "not think". Randomness cannot be increased nor decreased. Randomness is random, or not random. '''Of course, nothing in life is truly  random, as everything has some thought or choice put into it. '''Nothing in life is random. at all. '''When you think about it, anything that is considered random can't be random, as for it to be random, someone has to think of it as random then say or post it, therefore eliminating the randomness of it because they thought it was random and decided to post or say it. Of course. This creates a situation in life where nothing is random because everything has an element of choice in it. '''Naturally. '''Of course, you could think of this post as random, but I assure you it isn't. You've stated the same thing 4+ times. Am I getting to deep and complicated yet? '''No. This is pretty basic. Refer to what I said earlier about true randomness.'''WELL I DON'T CARE! THIS THREAD IS A LIE AND I WILL PROVE IT EVEN IF I HAVE TO WRITE A 200 WORD ESSAY!'''​​​​​​ I guess. ''' Wait, I think I've already done that. I seem to be getting side-tracked, so lets get back to randomness, shall we? Oh, wait, I forgot, RANDOMNESS DOES'T EXIST! It does, but only in theoretical mathematics. Your "randomness" is referring to the "randomness" of human thought. That is, an actual person going through their mind and selecting a topic. This isn't even close to randomness. This cannot even be called a random thought, because you are handpicking it. If the person above said "cheese", you wouldn't say "mozzerella", because you would dub it as not "random enough", when, in reality, a perfect theoretical random number generator can turn up with the number 5 six googol times in a row. Randomness can be anything.

Now, let's go to the next thing. A seed-based random number generator. That is, a computer, or you, picks a seed, and, based on that seed, runs mathematical formulas to get a "random" set of numbers. The problem with this is that, every time you put in that seed, the same "random" numbers would appear.

There's also things like atmospheric noise random number generators. These guys use sound in the surrounding area to bring you a seemingly random number that theoretically cannot be replicated. However, it is possible to predict atmospheric noise, and you can even go back in time to that moment, where the number will be the same. Still, the number that comes up will, although seemingly random, always be based around physical things.

However, a random number is still theoretically possible, but there is simply no way to create it in real life, and there never, ever, ever will be.