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army1987 comments on Are coin flips quantum random to my conscious brain-parts? - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: Academian 19 February 2013 09:51AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 19 February 2013 05:58:17PM 2 points [-]

See this.

Comment author: Nisan 20 February 2013 04:55:51PM 0 points [-]

Yep. Origin of probabilities and their application to the multiverse is a short argument that says that there is quantum uncertainty in the firing times of neurons on the order of 1 ms, and that accounts for most of the uncertainty of a coin toss.

Someone brought up Dynamical Bias in the Coin Toss, which has a more serious analysis of coin tossing and would provide a better answer to the question of "How sensitive is the outcome of a coin toss to the motion of the thumb?" I haven't read it.