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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Topic started by: Dexter on July 21, 2014, 08:45:04 pm

Title: What were the chances of you being born? Basically zero.
Post by: Dexter on July 21, 2014, 08:45:04 pm

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/abinazir/2011/06/15/what-are-chances-you-would-be-born/

(http://i.imgur.com/IxJ3klU.png)

Title: Re: What were the chances of you being born? Basically zero.
Post by: Oceander on July 22, 2014, 03:33:24 am

and yet, here I is.

Title: Re: What were the chances of you being born? Basically zero.
Post by: Dexter on July 22, 2014, 04:08:52 am

Quote from: Oceander on July 22, 2014, 03:33:24 am

and yet, here I is.

Quite incredible if you ask me.

Title: Re: What were the chances of you being born? Basically zero.
Post by: Oceander on July 22, 2014, 04:26:53 am

Quote from: Dex4974 on July 22, 2014, 04:08:52 am

Quite incredible if you ask me.

Not really.  Whomever "I" turned out to be would be "me," so the probability of "me" being born was 1.

Title: Re: What were the chances of you being born? Basically zero.
Post by: EC on July 22, 2014, 10:02:30 am

No one really exists.

The you that was born is not the you now. All you share with that person is a few scratches in your brain - we call them memories. Everything else has changed and keeps changing constantly.