Random

Random joins nothing and imagination as a black box word, one with no definition other than circular, used to pretend a meaning where none is known or to disguise a meaning that runs against the authoritative endoreality. What it disguises here is a chooser. Marsh's framework holds that every choice includes that which chooses, and the quantum will is the chooser behind the choice of outcome in quantum interactions, so an event described as random is an event whose chooser has been declined rather than an event without one. The argument from code is the sharpest part and is empirically true on its own terms. It is impossible to create a random event in code because random does not exist, which every programmer knows as the distinction between pseudorandom generation and the genuine article, with software falling back on physical sources precisely because algorithms cannot produce what the word names. Marsh takes that as evidence rather than as a technical footnote. The position it opposes is the standard reading of quantum indeterminacy, in which outcomes are irreducibly probabilistic and no further explanation is available or required. Her objection is not to the mathematics but to treating the absence of an identified cause as the identification of an absence, which is the same objection she makes to nothing after death, since nobody can describe or has experienced the state being asserted.

Randomness is treated seriously in mathematics and computer science, where algorithmic randomness has precise definitions through Kolmogorov complexity and the pseudorandom and true random distinction is standard practice. Physics divides over whether quantum indeterminacy is fundamental, with Bell's theorem and its experimental tests ruling out local hidden variables while leaving other options open. Einstein's objection that God does not play dice was the historical version of Marsh's discomfort. Her position goes beyond determinism, since a hidden variable is not a will, and positing a chooser at the elemental level is a claim no interpretation of quantum mechanics currently requires or supports.