This cross-disciplinary course deals with the undetermined, the unpredictable- or what appears to be such. Learn about the usefulness of randomness in communication and computation, the intrinsic randomness of quantum phenomena, the unpredictability of the weather, and the implications of the neural activity of the brain on our "free will".
This integrative course covers randomness (its definition, use and generation) and the unpredictability of physical events (classical noise and chaos, quantum indeterminism). These are considered against the notion of free will.
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