For all the deference to “laws” of nature that supposedly govern everything that happens, the truth is that randomness rules the world.
Everywhere you look, randomness is at work, in all the processes described by the mathematics of probability. The temperature of the air and the capriciousness of the weather all depend on random collisions of molecules.
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