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by danijelb 1541 days ago
If you play the loterry for an infinite amount of time, eventually you're going to guess the winning numbers. I think it's the same thing with us. Our existence is just a product of an infinite lottery on multiple levels. We probably needed an unimaginable amount of planets "brewing" in all corners of the universe for an unimaginable amount of time until a planet succeeded in making and supporting sentient life. But, the environment in which planets can form and be stable is also not given. Maybe it took billions of "generations" of universes until this one appeared. I imagine there is also something more fundamental behind the universe(s), and it probably also had to go through a ton of generations until it generated the concepts of space and time.

To sum up, I think we are nothing more than weird temporarily stable regions dependent upon other temporarily stable regions in the sea of white noise.