Physical (A)Causality: Determinism, Randomness and Uncaused Events

• Main Author: Karl Svozil (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Nature 2018
• Series: Fundamental Theories of Physics
• Subjects: Physics; Self-reflexive knowledge; Physical chaos; Physical random number generators; Irreducible randomness; Randomness in physics; Physical indeterminism; Acausality in physics
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This book addresses the physical phenomenon of events that seem to occur spontaneously and without any known cause. These are to be contrasted with events that happen in a (pre-)determined, predictable, lawful, and causal way. All our knowledge is based on self-reflexive theorizing, as well as on op...