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Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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The Fine Line Between Illogic and Likeliness in the Universe
We see what happens to us. We wonder, hmm, was that just a random lucky fluke? Or is that the kind of thing we expect to see in the universe? And there's this overriding principle in science called the Copernican principle, which argues that our experience is not weird. So when we look out into the universe, we tend to try to explain what we see without resorting to lucky chances and random flukes. But lucky flukes is why we're here, Daniel. Lucky flukes are the best. Every individual person has an almost astronomically tiny chance of ever existing with all of their constituent details.
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