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What were the chances of you being born? Basically zero.
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What were the chances of you being born? Basically zero.
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July 21, 2014, 04:45:04 pm »
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/abinazir/2011/06/15/what-are-chances-you-would-be-born/
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and yet, here I is.
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Quote from: Oceander on July 21, 2014, 11:33:24 pm
and yet, here I is.
Quite incredible if you ask me.
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Quote from: Dex4974 on July 22, 2014, 12:08:52 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.
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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.
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