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We investigate indeterminism in physical observations. For this, we introducea distinction between genuinely indeterministic (creation-1 and discovery-1)observational processes, and fully deterministic (creation-2 and discovery-2)observational processes, which we analyze by drawing a parallel between thelocalization properties of microscopic entities, like electrons, and thelateralization properties of macroscopic entities, like simple elastic bands.We show that by removing the randomness incorporated in certain of ourobservational processes, acquiring over them a better control, we also alterthese processes in such a radical way that in the end they do not correspondanymore to the observation of the same property. We thus conclude that acertain amount of indeterminism must be accepted and welcomed in our physicalobservations, as we cannot get rid of it without also diminishing ourdiscriminative power. We also provide in our analysis some elements ofclarification regarding the non-spatial nature of microscopic entities, whichwe illustrate by using an analogy with the process of objectification of humanconcepts. Finally, the important notion of relational properties is properlydefined, and the role played by indeterminism in their characterizationclarified.

God may not play dice, but human observers surely do