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To be a fully random sequence, a sequence would have to contain substrings of apparent predictable beautiful order. If it didn't, it would be more predictable (you could then discard ordered continuations), not unpredictable.

> [Model-agnosticism] consists of never regarding any model or map of the universe with total 100% belief or total 100% denial. Following Korzybski, I put things in probabilities, not absolutes... My only originality lies in applying this zetetic attitude outside the hardest of the hard sciences, physics, to softer sciences and then to non-sciences like politics, ideology, jury verdicts and, of course, conspiracy theory. -- RAW

A universe isn't a map, it is the territory. An ordered universe can still be mapped/modeled with maths. A universe that is impossible to be mapped/modeled and has no predictable patterns would be an impossibly boring universe indeed (Kolmogorov Random Universe). Perhaps our brains would evolve to think more in probabilities than absolutes in such a universe. Or they could simply not be allowed to exist (intelligence requires order).




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