But I AM the only one!
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Swaki said:
I can second this, im the only one from Denmark, and propably the rest of the world too, called Mads Thillemann... Theres another Mads Thillemann, but he has a middlename so that doesnt count as the same...
Let's celebrate our unique danish/greek/german names of awesome and excellence... ^^
Well I'm glad to know I'm not the only one whose life completely blows for all the reasons that mine does. At least I know there's someone out there who can share my misery.
I bet 1000 internet dollars that im the only who plays with 13 gauge guitar strings and even knows who richie kotzen is on the escapist.
Indeed it is;Humanity1 said: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
Metaphysically, as you said, even if something was unique now, it will not remain thusly. The first ICBM was a unique entity, until it was mass produced and modified. The first computer prototype was unique, as were its refinements, until they were expanded.
My definition of unique tends to refer to something being one-of-a-kind, however all definitions make equal sense, as any definition is subjective. For that matter, im sure we're not the only people to have extensive conversations about hypothetical retrospective analytical linearity in the progression and observation of existent entities.
At the core, despite appearance, we can never be unique due to our composition, however, we can appear to be unique, or justifiably claim to be rare, or uncommon. Having said that, now ill just go and completely contradict myself by saying that at the same time, the term unique was coined to define something being not before seen, or present. On those grounds, its definition may say one thing, but the meaning of the world, akin to anomaly, can be bent to define a great many things, as directly oppose to limiting it.
Much in the same way there are various definitions of unique, the term unique itself has its own meaning, devoid of interpretation. Not in the literary sense, but in the comprehensive overview oriented meta-sense, if that makes any sense
Simultaneous anomalous composition can occur easily, but the conditions relating to it are unlikely. Though if it were to occur, it could theoretically be considered Unique, as at that moment, it is unique in its relevance to its surroundings, as well as any other potential influence.
I could expand on that, but this is probably going to mutate into one big wall of pseudo-science hypothesis as it is
Aw.. I know there is at least one guy with that name but I guess it's uncommon D: Ah well, danish names are still cool.GWarface said:Gotta burst your bubble, never heard of the name Bozard... Z's arent that common in names here... But it wouldnt suprise me if there was a dane somewhere called that...
You only think you say it the "proper" way. Most of us hearing it would just assume you are saying it the "douchy" wayPrimoThePro said:
I am not at all unique, except I can write unique sentences like "My name is binky-boo and when I am angry, I feed others poo."
I even googled that sentence to ensure that it was unique (or as unique as possible).