To make their case, they cite Thomas Aquinas, to ground their argument that the stochastic and random elements at work in the world, are not incompatible with a classical Christian understanding of God.

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By 1968 he had concluded that they could be kept in order by stochastic (ie, random) cooling: identifying a wayward particle on one side of the accelerator ring, sending a signal directly across to the other end, and tweaking the magnetic field to nudge the oncoming errant particle back into the beam.

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Birdsong works because it's stochastic, made up of lots of random sounds.

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Instead of trying to eliminate this, he said, it should be embraced to produce so-called "stochastic processors" that are subject to random errors.

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