[ExI] A short movie I created (with the help of AI)

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: spike at rainier66.com <spike at rainier66.com> 
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>…Regarding the notion of our being one of 200 million possible distinct people who could have been conceived rather than ourself, this is a vast understatement, upon which I will comment in a subsequent post.  spike 

 

 

If one is not up to speed on how a zygote is formed by whichever sperm manages to penetrate the corona radiata and the zona pellucida, there is plenty of information available on the process that occurs next: the zygote DNA is formed by taking DNA from both the sperm and the ovum.  Given a particular sperm and a particular oocyte, how many different possible ways can those two form a genetically complete zygote?  Never mind potential irregularities such as trisomy, never mind the mind-blowing complications of environmental influences on embryonic development, just consider how many different possible ways a particular sperm and a particular egg and combine.  We are all statistically indistinguishable from impossible.

 

spike 

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