Comments on: It is true, dear–I have stress http://www.ryanjallen.net/blog/2009/02/09/it-is-true-dear-i-have-stress/ Everything RJA Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:16:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: You Look Like A Nail http://www.ryanjallen.net/blog/2009/02/09/it-is-true-dear-i-have-stress/comment-page-1/#comment-2130 You Look Like A Nail Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:53:37 +0000 http://www.ryanjallen.net/blog/?p=1424#comment-2130 Statistically you may already be dead, but statistically, you were never alive. As Douglas Adams explained, space is infinite but habitable planets are obviously finite, and any finite number divided by infinity is 0, or close enough to make no difference. Therefore statistically there is no such thing as an inhabited planet, and therefore any life forms you may encounter are statistical outliers and can be safely ignored. Can a mathematically nonexistent individual die? Given Zeno's paradox, I have to answer, yes, but you'd never get there. Statistically you may already be dead, but statistically, you were never alive. As Douglas Adams explained, space is infinite but habitable planets are obviously finite, and any finite number divided by infinity is 0, or close enough to make no difference. Therefore statistically there is no such thing as an inhabited planet, and therefore any life forms you may encounter are statistical outliers and can be safely ignored.

Can a mathematically nonexistent individual die? Given Zeno’s paradox, I have to answer, yes, but you’d never get there.

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