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by logicchains 688 days ago
No matter how low the probability of life arising by chance, from the perspective of life the probability that it happened is 100%, because if it didn't happen then we wouldn't be around to observe it. We're operating from a massive selection bias.
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The probability of it happening by chance alone is not known though, in the technical sense of the word. In the colloquial sense it is though, which makes for a very interesting situation here in 2024, and prior.