# Quote — Daniel Dennett, Freedom Evolves

> ..the point of a randomizing device like a coin flip, [is] to make the result uncontrollable by making it sensitive to so many variables that no feasible, finite list of conditions can be singled out as the cause.

- Author: [Daniel Dennett](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-dennett.md)
- Book: [Freedom Evolves](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-dennett/freedom-evolves.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-dennett/freedom-evolves/the-point-of-a-randomizing

## More from this book

> The salmon swimming upstream to spawn may be wily in a hundred ways, but she cannot even contemplate the prospect of abandoning her reproductive project and deciding instead to live out her days studying coastal geography or trying to learn Portuguese. The creation of a panoply of new standpoints is, to my mind, the most striking product of the euprimatic revolution.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-dennett/freedom-evolves/the-salmon-swimming.md)

> We live in a world that is subjectively open. And we are designed by evolution to be "informavores," epistemically hungry seekers of information, in an endless quest to improve our purchase on the world.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-dennett/freedom-evolves/we-live-in-a-world.md)