Talk:Randomness/to do


 * In Randomness and Religion, the Buddhist position on karma is misrepresented. Specifically, karma means volitional action. Additionally, karma is not presumed to be the only causal mechanism behind events. Chance is another factor, as is the karma of others. In Buddhism, karma is a being's volitional action which heavily influences that being's future experiences, but it does not determine them completely (as in sowing seeds which may or may not germinate depending on a compound of factors - some volitional, some not). In this regard, the Buddhist position on karma has nothing to do with randomness.  Perhaps this portion of the article should be removed, as I am unaware of Buddhism even taking a position on randomness. See the Wikipedia article Karma in Buddhism for a better explanation. Additionally, the Hindu view was lumped together with the Buddhist view, and I suspect the Hindu view of karma suffers from a similar misrepresentation.
 * Present Random number generators in the Communications and Cryptography paragraph? Since I'm not sure how to do it (to give details about Pseudorandom number generators and Hardware random number generators or not...), and the whole article is pretty well written, I don't want to mess with it :-)
 * Fix grammar. No run on sentences allowed!
 * In Randomness and Religion, 'Compatibilist' should be reverted to 'Incompatibilist,' no? Ejhumphrey (talk) 01:57, 21 April 2008 (UTC)