Spirit or brain?

[hot_pastrami]

Well, what causes something to be random though? Does our concept of random really exist? Something that is seemingly random is really behaving exactly as it should according to the laws of physics, on any scale. Things are perceived as random to us because we cannot observe the cause, and/or the cause is too complex for us to grasp wholly, like the weather.

Even the direction that each subatamic particle came barreling out of the sigularity at the Big Bang (assuming you buy that theory) was governed by physics. If you put together the same set of circustances exactly, the laws of physics would still make the same calls and the same results would occur.

Of course if you can come up with something that is truly, genuinely random, then I am wrong. But I can't think of anything that is truly random.. everything is triggered by <i>something</i>.