Sorry for the multi-posting, but I’d completely forgotten my resolve to ask every proponent of indeterminism how it could possibly be that an undetermined choice ever gets made – or, as I put it earlier:
There’s one question I never seem to be able to find a good answer to: if for some event there does not exist sufficient reason (i.e. if it’s not determined), then how does it happen? How can something be truly random? If two possibilities, A and B, are equally likely to occur, what happens in order to choose, say, B over A? I’m not asking why B happens, but merely how – what is the process through which something happens if it is not determined to happen? I know, the answer typically is ‘there is no process’, or ‘it just happens that way’, or anything along those lines. Both A and B could happen, and B happens, that’s all. Most people seem content with this, but to me, this seems to be a deeply unsatisfactory answer. In order to choose B over A, surely somehow, somewhere, a choice must be made. But how can that choice be made if there is no sufficient reason for it? It’s a well-posed question, but it doesn’t seem, in principle , answerable – since any answer would provide a determining mechanism, and remove the stipulated randomness. If I were to accept this, I should just as well accept ‘God did it’ as ultima ratio.