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Sort of a complicated question, I'll try to ask. How was I born me and not another?
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RE: Sort of a complicated question, I'll try to ask. How was I born me and not another?
(October 13, 2016 at 2:49 pm)EruptedCarcassBloat Wrote:
(October 13, 2016 at 2:48 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: The question "what is the possibility of never being born" doesn't really make any sense.  "You" can only exist if you were at one point born.
I mean never existing.

It still doesn't make any sense.  If "you" never existed, then we wouldn't be able to calculate the odds because we wouldn't have a "you" to use in the numerator.  You can't calculate a probability when one of the variables is a giant "unknown" or "incoherence".
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RE: Sort of a complicated question, I'll try to ask. How was I born me and not another? - by FatAndFaithless - October 13, 2016 at 2:51 pm

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