Blueberry comments on Parapsychology: the control group for science - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Blueberry 07 December 2009 06:40:08AM 2 points [-]

I'm thinking "algorithmic". That is, the universe, or a video game, follows a certain algorithm to determine what happens next, whether the algorithm is the laws of physics or a computer program. Algorithms aren't necessarily deterministic: we could have a step for "generate a truly random (quantum) number".