PWrong wrote:Whenever there is a 50% chance of something happening,
This case NEVER exists. Everything that happens will have a 100% chance of happening, we just have no way to determine it.
A coin flips. 50-50.
No. 50-50 to our limited information. BUT if we knew the weight and wear on the coin, the position on the finger, the speed and angle of the finger flick, the amount of moisture on the thumbnail, the relative humidity of the air, the arc and distance travelled of the elbow and forearm, how heavily the person is breathing and the windspeed, the pressure due to distance from sea level, the ... the ... the ... ad infinitum.
Once all variable are taken into account, there is nothing random and no way that the coin can fall in any matter except in the way it does.
"Random" only means "acted upon by more variables than commonly calculable". A die roll might be different if you had a hot shower in the morning rather than a cold shower, which changes the elasticity of the skin of your fingers, and therefor to us deemed "random". But there was only 1 possible outcome of that die roll - the one that occured under the myriad conditions imposed upon it.