What Are Your Chances of Being Born as You?

JustDave

JustDave

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I found myself thinking about being given my own chance of life on the planet. At birth, the baby is naturally given a sense of self, so when I was born, I became me. Theoretically it seems like there was an infinitely small chance of this happening, because there was a much bigger chance that a baby would be born as someone else, but in each of our cases, we lucked out on the Wheel of Infinity's spin, and it turned out that we won! A baby was born, and it turned out to be one of us. That seems like the ultimate stroke of luck.

Not sure why this popped into my mind. And I have no idea how people could even respond to this, but I'll give it a try. Has anyone thought about this before?
 

JustDave said:
I found myself thinking about being given my own chance of life on the planet. At birth, the baby is naturally given a sense of self, so when I was born, I became me. Theoretically it seems like there was an infinitely small chance of this happening, because there was a much bigger chance that a baby would be born as someone else, but in each of our cases, we lucked out on the Wheel of Infinity's spin, and it turned out that we won! A baby was born, and it turned out to be one of us. That seems like the ultimate stroke of luck.

Not sure why this popped into my mind. And I have no idea how people could even respond to this, but I'll give it a try. Has anyone thought about this before?
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LoL! l have given a lot of thought to this question and the only dupIicate of you would be an identical twin. But that doesn't compute either.

Actually I don't believe that anything on earth has a duplicate of each other. ln other words you can,only have been and can only ever be you.
 
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I know you mean the entity who is using your eyes to look out upon the world. I thought about that and found I'm nothing special. I could have been born as anyone else and been the same. Kinda sad, but I don't find people to be all that unique, only their circumstances.
 

Judycat said:
I know you mean the entity who is using your eyes to look out upon the world. I thought about that and found I'm nothing special. I could have been born as anyone else and been the same. Kinda sad, but I don't find people to be all that unique, only their circumstances.
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From what l understand no two people on earth have the same fingerprints.
 
If you are not you, who would you be? I Think it has something to do with identity. You are you because you identify with self which is inward. You cannot view other people as you because it is not the same.
" I am he, he is me and we are all together" See how they run...I am the Walrus
 
Mr. Ed said:
If you are not you, who would you be? I Think it has something to do with identity. You are you because you identify with self which is inward. You cannot view other people as you because it is not the same.
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That's another way to describe the phenomenon. Now add; there can be only one you, and you will only be you for a brief time. This is what makes it so extraordinary. It's like winning a lottery.
 
IrisSenior said:
Oh ya...lots of thought as I get older and older. I'm tired of asking 'why' and try to enjoy day to day while I am here. There are infinite possibilities of everything.
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This is the most sensible way of dealing with it.
 
Judycat said:
I know you mean the entity who is using your eyes to look out upon the world. I thought about that and found I'm nothing special. I could have been born as anyone else and been the same. Kinda sad, but I don't find people to be all that unique, only their circumstances.
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I agree.

The way that I was molded and shaped by my circumstances was much more significant than my birth.

The thing that I do continue to marvel at is how children in the same family and raised under the same circumstances develop and respond so differently.

I do have to add, I’m thankful and blessed to have been born into an average middle class American family, warts and all, instead of in the slums of some desperately poor third world country.
 
It's like being blindfolded and throwing a dart at a map on the wall. It lands on Winfield, Kansas. You exclaim, "Wow, Winfield, Kansas! What are the odds of that?!!!"

You could do that all day for each city that the dart randomly lands on. :ROFLMAO:
 
Children often share certain traits with their parents. This means that you would have had a different personality if you had been born to another family. We are also affected by our position in the family...born first or last, etc. So many factors to consider when analysing our lives.
 
JustDave said:
That's another way to describe the phenomenon. Now add; there can be only one you, and you will only be you for a brief time. This is what makes it so extraordinary. It's like winning a lottery.
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Who says there can only be one you? I used to hear that in church, but my experience shows I'm like a lot of other people. Not that extraordinary. It's more like being tossed out with everyone else and landing somewhere, you have to land somewhere. Shoo. Now go live. Blah. Sorry but I haven't seen anything in life that makes it like winning the lottery. Nothing says you have to agree with me either.
 
Even simple multicellular eukaryote life forms are incredibly complex down at cellular and molecular levels. Higher mammals and we humans are so vastly complex that there is negligible chance of ever even near duplication. Our adult human brain neocortexes alone with 30 billion neurons and trillions of dendrite synapses have an estimated 300,000,000 nearly identical initially blank pattern recognizers that are interconnected and pruned depending on experience.

We are not born as a given person because the old narrative until recent decades of its all about DNA was quite incorrect. Instead our neuroplasticity brains with considerable variable gene expression develop through experience and actions. Two identical twins might outwardly physically appear similar but if living independently, their minds can develop very different.

We are mostly what we experience and do thus given opportunity at Maslov's higher pyramid of needs levels, are products of our own creation and choices. Those stuck down at lower levels are more a product of their environment and constant struggles.
 
Only thoughts about birth I've ever had was to be lucky enough to be born in America. I think the timing worked in my favor. As a baby not much mattered. Later being an adult with responsibilities, I had the good fortune to be alive when the population was lower & the chance for opportunities was higher.
 
What were the chances of me being born as me? Both infinitesimally small and 100% at the same time, because while the odds were greatly against it happening, I was indeed born as me.
 
JustDave said:
I found myself thinking about being given my own chance of life on the planet. At birth, the baby is naturally given a sense of self, so when I was born, I became me. Theoretically it seems like there was an infinitely small chance of this happening, because there was a much bigger chance that a baby would be born as someone else, but in each of our cases, we lucked out on the Wheel of Infinity's spin, and it turned out that we won! A baby was born, and it turned out to be one of us. That seems like the ultimate stroke of luck.

Not sure why this popped into my mind. And I have no idea how people could even respond to this, but I'll give it a try. Has anyone thought about this before?
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Yes, I am constantly pondering it. First from a general historical coincidences perspective wherein any small historical divergence could have erased me because the timing had to be precise. Then from an individual decisions perspective in which any small difference in timing or else in personal choices could have forever eliminated the possibility.

BTW

Yes I am fully aware of the concept of predestination and of the concept of the Guff, a repository of souls in heaven from which souls are taken and assigned to recently conceived and unborn baby soulless bodies which have been conceived.
 
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David777 said:
Even simple multicellular eukaryote life forms are incredibly complex down at cellular and molecular levels. Higher mammals and we humans are so vastly complex that there is negligible chance of ever even near duplication. Our adult human brain neocortexes alone with 30 billion neurons and trillions of dendrite synapses have an estimated 300,000,000 nearly identical initially blank pattern recognizers that are interconnected and pruned depending on experience.

We are not born as a given person because the old narrative until recent decades of its all about DNA was quite incorrect. Instead our neuroplasticity brains with considerable variable gene expression develop through experience and actions. Two identical twins might outwardly physically appear similar but if living independently, their minds can develop very different.

We are mostly what we experience and do thus given opportunity at Maslov's higher pyramid of needs levels, are products of our own creation and choices. Those stuck down at lower levels are more a product of their environment and constant struggles.
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Mothers will tell you that each baby has its own distinct character right from birth. I think how it develops depends on its upbringing.
 

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