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Johannes Weg

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As proofed by quantum cryptography, quantum effects deliver the "highest quality of randomness" technically available nowadays (cf. Nature, 540, 213–2...
August 15, 2017 at 17:50
I had to think a lot about wrong decisions in my life hitherto. Retrospectively I came to the conclusion that it was "a mixture of chance and necessit...
August 15, 2017 at 17:29
Should we consider an advanced robot in future as "FREE", if it simulates reasoning by implemented logic, compassion by special fuzzy logic units and ...
August 15, 2017 at 17:18
What is the difference between a creative mind's will and a random generator, if its decisions within certain boundaries do not depend on anything?
August 15, 2017 at 17:09
Maybe the suspicion against alludes to Russel's teapot. Of course every proponent of a specific religion cannot demand a disproof from disbelievers. R...
August 15, 2017 at 16:48
Probability is the result of an interaction of "chance and necessity". Let's take a normal dice. The regular cubical shape with the six faces determin...
August 15, 2017 at 16:09
No matter, whether God exists or plain naturalism is true, the term "free will" is rather inconsistent. Either my volitions are thoroughly connected t...
August 12, 2017 at 13:48
Atheism is just one form of belief. In an essay published at "Internet Archive", titled "Believing veraciously", I tried to show that we can't avoid b...
August 12, 2017 at 13:38
A philosophical essay, I published only today, tries to show that induction is unavoidably necessary, but always has the character of a belief or even...
August 12, 2017 at 13:31