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    Supports→The objection that digital machines are deterministic while humans are not does not establish a relevant difference between humans and digital machines, even in a non-deterministic world.

    A digital machine with access to a hardware random-number generator exploiting quantum noise satisfies any operational indeterminacy requirement that human neurons could plausibly satisfy.

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    Key Terms

    Hardware random-number generator(as used in computer science and physics)
    A physical device that produces unpredictable numbers by measuring something genuinely random in nature, rather than using a mathematical formula.
    Operational indeterminacy(as used in philosophy of mind and determinism)
    A situation where you can't predict or determine the outcome of something based on the conditions or rules you can observe and measure—the result is genuinely unpredictable, not just unknown.
    Quantum noise(as used in physics and this philosophical argument)
    Random, unpredictable fluctuations in behavior at the quantum level (the tiniest scales of matter and energy), which we cannot precisely control or predict.
    determinism(Discussion of classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, and general relativity)
    A property of physical theories concerning whether the laws governing a system fully fix future (and past) states given present conditions; admits of degrees ('fall only a bit short')

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    An exemption from the laws of nature; the power of doing and forbearing

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