Statistics of you being alive - What are the odds ?
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This is correct but here's what's flawed about this logic. Every single event that occurs has about the same odds of happening if you were to multiply every possible variation before it. So odds of any event happening just the way it does is "basically zero".
Oh look, another "expert" misusing science/mathematics to impress the ignorant masses on Facebook, all in the service of launching his book/motivational speaking/seminar career.
I hate this stupid feelgood social-sharing-fodder crap.
You can't just apply naive probability to events that have already happened and say "OMG isn't it AMAZING???". No, it's just fucking banal.
If the OP's infographic had predicted my exact genetic combination and birth date before I was born, then I'd be impressed.
I hate this stupid feelgood social-sharing-fodder crap.
You can't just apply naive probability to events that have already happened and say "OMG isn't it AMAZING???". No, it's just fucking banal.
If the OP's infographic had predicted my exact genetic combination and birth date before I was born, then I'd be impressed.
Here's the truth of the whole matter.
The odds of any one of us existing at this very moment is 100%, because we do.
Fail Infograph, although I get the point.
The odds of any one of us existing at this very moment is 100%, because we do.
Fail Infograph, although I get the point.
ZOMG THERE WAS A ONE IN 20 MILLION CHANCE OF ME SCRATCHING MY NOSE WHILE BLINKING AT 7:35:26 THIS MORNING. PRAISE JESUS!
I've thought about this before and I came to the conclusion that you have always existed. You're consciousness is just born into a new life form every time you die. A form of re-incarnation. Otherwise you would not exist today.
That's actually something I've thought of a few times. It's kind of funny how long our lives feel relative to us, but in reality they're nothing to the age of everything else (earth, solar system, galaxy, universe). There's got to be more to it than this. That and the thought of literally nothing, no space, no consciousness, just absolutely nothing is very hard for me to fathom, so I think there has to be some kind of reincarnation.
Lanza's theory of biocentrism has seven principles:
- What we perceive as reality is a process that involves our consciousness. An "external" reality, if it existed, would by definition have to exist in space. But this is meaningless, because space and time are not absolute realities but rather tools of the human and animal mind.
- Our external and internal perceptions are inextricably intertwined. They are different sides of the same coin and cannot be divorced from one another.
- The behavior of subatomic particles, indeed all particles and objects, is inextricably linked to the presence of an observer. Without the presence of a conscious observer, they at best exist in an undetermined state of probability waves.
- Without consciousness, "matter" dwells in an undetermined state of probability. Any universe that could have preceded consciousness only existed in a probability state.
- The structure of the universe is explainable only through biocentrism. The universe is fine-tuned for life, which makes perfect sense as life creates the universe, not the other way around. The "universe" is simply the complete spatio-temporal logic of the self.
- Time does not have a real existence outside of animal-sense perception. It is the process by which we perceive changes in the universe.
- Space, like time, is not an object or a thing. Space is another form of our animal understanding and does not have an independent reality. We carry space and time around with us like turtles with shells. Thus, there is no absolute self-existing matrix in which physical events occur independent of life.
I'm only halfway through the book, but an interesting yet simple example is the old "does a tree falling in the woods make a sound if nobody is there to hear it?" question. What is sound? sound is just air being disturbed, our brains create the sound in our mind from puffs of air being pushed by the tree. So does sound actually exist?
"I think we know for a scientific fact that without an observer not a single particle exists in that tree with definite properties. So if you don’t look at it they exist only as probability waves. The color and brightness of the tree also requires a consciousness. So again, without your consciousness, nothing remotely resembling that tree could exist."
