But I AM the only one!
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I think it's quite possible that my name is one of a kind. My family name is sort of unusual and my first name is very unusual, so I see the likelihood of someone having the exact same combination as pretty small. But who knows.
What else... I guess my irrational disgust towards brass and gold could be unusual enough to be somewhat unique.
What else... I guess my irrational disgust towards brass and gold could be unusual enough to be somewhat unique.
See, I am not a hypocrite, just really weird, as I pronounce all of those like the idiot I am. Anything with a Q gets a (Kweh, or Kwee) sound, or as close as I can get to one. (PEE-kweh)(Ant-IH-kweh)(Kyoo) The last one sounds like the letter Q anyway, so I'm gonna go ahead and disregard it! XDcrudus said:
No one is unique from one single factor, it's the things that we do and remember put together that make us unique, we all have thousands of memories, experience's, habits, ideas, thoughts, disabilities, problems etc... that when together make us an individual, no one is the same, just think about every moment in your entire life, do you really believe someone else has experienced that in the same order and state as you have and have effected them in the same way?
I have broken my arm in Croatia, been go-karting in Monaco, and spent 4 and a half years living on a boat.
I think I take the prize here.
I think I take the prize here.
I started a bullshit joke-cult around a folded piece of paper I made in study hall. We have six followers.
Yes, now if two people actually did that, the action iself would not be uniqueHumanity1 said:
But the real question is, can you think of something which there is no vague possibility of anyone in the whole world doing, with the exception of one person?
This is quite an interesting conversation
Nope. You're not, I think i might be the only straight(ish) guy in the country who thinks niether cheryl cole or kiara knightley are that attractive either (also, i'm 14, Shouldn't i supposed to be wanting to have sex with everything that moves?).OptimisticPessimist said:
I'm also the only secret world leader in the world...well at least...I hope so.
The citizens of croatia beg to differ.PoisonUnagi said:
The go-karters of monaco beg to differ.
Long john silver,Blackbeard,Redbeard,Captain hook and (Captain) jack sparrow beg to differ...still that sounds awesome though.
I would say I am too, but with all the clones I've created...ultrachicken said:
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For a while I was the only user on the Escapist with this avatar.
Not sure if that's true anymore though.
Yes, the action itself wouldn't, but the string of characters rattled off (the result) most likely would be. The chances of anyone having spoken the exact same sequence of syllables at any point since playing cards were invented to now (or even billions of years into the future, assuming we're still using playing cards) is tiny, like your much more likely to find a needle in a haystack tiny. With such a small probability of happening you can predict with a huge level of accuracy (practically 100%) that it hasn't happened yet. A 95% level of significance is sufficient for most scientists and statisticians when they are preforming experiments, 99% is ridiculously good. In this example I would be prepared to bet everything I own that if you shuffled a deck well and got everyone else on this planet to do the same, no one would have the same result as you.Estocavio said:Yes, now if two people actually did that, the action iself would not be uniqueHumanity1 said:
But the real question is, can you think of something which there is no vague possibility of anyone in the whole world doing, with the exception of one person?
This is quite an interesting conversation
I suppose the real question comes down to what are we considering to be unique? One extreme way of viewing unique is that is mush be a combination of different things that has never been combined that way before (eg. a person with brown hair would not be considered unique but someone with brown hair AND blue eyes AND who can play the trumpet AND who owns 3 pet vipers AND ... would be considered unique). The very extreme edge of this definition means that even a person with brown hair is unique as the particular arrangement of his brown hairs has most likely never been seen before which infers that, by this definition, everything can be described as unique, rendering it useless.
The other extreme is that, for something to be unique the entirity of what is being described as unique must have never been in existance before (eg. the person in the last example would not be unique in this definition if each element of his uniqueness was shared with at least one other person, which is quite likely). This means no physical attribute could be described as unique as all is made of electrons, protons etc. and in my card example no deck could be considered unique (even read out loud) as the elements of that deck (the cards) have all been read out/ listed/ existed before. As by this definition nothing is unique it's also pretty useless.
A good definition of unique falls somewhere in between these two extremes. My defintion leans towards the first in that anything that consists of atributes that have never been arranged or combined in a particular manner before is unique. Hence I'd say a well shuffled deck is almost certainly unique. By the sounds of things you lean more towards the second definition.
On a side note though, if we assume an infinite universe with infinitetime, although something may be unique at a particular time (eg. now) it can not be unique forever. In fact everything will eventually be repeated an infinite number of times (no matter what your definition of unique). Hence I think the term unique should only apply from the start of time to now, otherwise it has no meaning either.
Food for thought
Sorry man, beat you to it.Dango said:
Well, I hate to be all cheesy and soppy, but I, and everyone here, are the only people, who are in all and all, themselves.
Also, I could probably take the prize for worst grammar evar.
Holy squatters, I've got quite a few episodes of Thunderbirds recorded on VHS tapes.
... yet I only have DVD players.
... yet I only have DVD players.