God Doesn't Play Dice

Einstein's famous statement about God not playing dice with the Universe was more than just an ingenious quip by an ingenious man; it was also a well thought out statement of ingenious insight. Most modern physicists presume that Einstein, genious though he was for his theories on relativity, fell short of truly understanding the implications of the very quantum he himself largely defined. They believe, as one physicist retorted, that God does play dice, "but they're loaded". This attitude reflects the well known "Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics", which assumes (for patently no reason) that certain quantum events are completely random and have no casualty whatsoever. And even though Einstein did fail to imagine the direction his own theories would ultimately lend us, I suspect he understood exactly what he was saying when he asserted that God was no gambler.

As I have said before, everything must have a cause, or source of being. But, I have also said, crucially, that if there is any cause at all, then all cause must be infinite. This is how I attempt to resolve the lingual difficulties that arise in our attempts to discuss the nature of our will. I said that a free choice is in actuality the result of infinite cause, and that every choice has infinite consequence. But the trick to understanding this lies in realizing that something infinite is not the same as a very large amount of something finite; they are not the same at all.

In fact, once the concept of infinity is properly embraced, one should be able to realize that the appearance of randomness is a necessary and innate attribute of infinite cause. Perception, by definition, is a finite experience. So we assume that in order for there to be any perception at all there must be some kind of limitation on infinite experience, or, a reduction of infinite cause. But, this mistakes infinity for something that can be reduced, or limited, which it cannot. Again, infinity is not a quantity, and hence it is not subject to quantifications, such as "limits" or "reductions".

The only way to create the appearance of a limited experience in a world of infinite cause and effect is to hide infinity itself. We must hide the infinite casualty of our experiences from ourselves, and when we do this, and then try to look very very very closely at our supposedly "limited" experience, we perceive the holes (where infinity is hidden) as causeless (i.e. random) events.

In truth, I am struggling here to say something that seems simple and obvious to me when I think about it without words. So let me just say this, someday science will discover that Einstein was right all along, no infinite being would, or even could, play dice, not even if it wanted to.

(J.D. 11-1-13)