<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 16/06/07, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:kevin@kevinfreels.com">kevin@kevinfreels.com</a></b> <<a href="mailto:kevin@kevinfreels.com">kevin@kevinfreels.com</a>> wrote:
<br><br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div>I don't think a universe would exist that contained a version of you along with three legged dogs as we share common ancestry and we have four limbs. The probability of such a thing is about equal to the probability that a tennis ball thrown by a child will pass through a 3 foot thick concrete wall. Although such anamolous universes have probabilities greater than zero, I would still consider them irrelevant.
</div></div></blockquote></div><br>Sure, such universes will be many orders of magnitude less common than universes with four legged dogs, but they will be many orders of magnitude more common than universes in which the leggedness of dogs suddenly changes.
<br><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Stathis Papaioannou