[Turfie]

It's never random. All is just a process of causes and conditions, albeit a very complex one. We just can't track all the variables.

[thombat]

At the root of medicine is biochemistry, and at the root of chemistry is quantum physics: the formation and breaking of chemical bonds is at core random events shaped by probabilities. We can only say how likely events are, not which ones will happen when.

[thisismyswamp]

Or rather even if it is deterministic, it might as well be random to us.

[throwaway22032]

Sure, in the same sense that a roulette table or a deck of shuffled cards isn't actually random, it's just cause and effect.

[paraschopra]

It's random for all practical purposes if you can't figure out the causes.