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Nature 439, 392 (26 January 2006) | doi:10.1038/439392d; Published online 25 January 2006

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Don't forget randomness is still just a hypothesis

Juergen Schmidhuber1

  1. IDSIA, Galleria 2, 6928 Manno-Lugano, Switzerland and Robotics and Embedded Systems, Technische Universität München, Boltzmannstrabetae 3, 85748 Garching bei München, Germany

Anton Zeilinger's bold essay "The message of the quantum" (Nature 438, 743; 2005) claims "the discovery that individual events are irreducibly random is probably one of the most significant findings of the twentieth century." But we should not forget that the claim of true randomness has not yet been backed by evidence.

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