Re:Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life D...
by mabbo on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @02:07PM
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No, I pretty definitely wouldn't exist. My father's family has been in Canada a lot longer, and I'm half him.
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Re:Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life D...
by xyzzy4 on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @02:23PM
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Ok but maybe your father or mother would've had a baby with someone else, and then you'd be that person.
Re:Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life D...
by Namrog84 on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @04:43PM
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I'm not even the same person as who i was yesterday.
Everytime my stream of consciousness stops and starts I am a new person built from the thousands of lives that came before.
This is not a saddening fact but an enlightening one. We all stand on the shoulders of those that came before us.
Re:Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life D...
by Fjolsvith on Thursday March 16, 2017 @10:38AM
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I thought we stood on their heads...
Re:Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life D...
by samangan on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @03:57PM
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You are your 'current' feelings and your past memories. The reason for the downvotes is that from your logic mabbo is every person who has ever existed in the history of the human species. Since every person has their own current feelings and past memories, saying mabbo would have been that person instead is a little meaningless.