statistical proxy (of life)

why did i write "life"?

i imagine that at some point in the past, i experienced a small part of what it feels like to be dying

which i imagine, affects a person profoundly if they were not ready to then forget it afterwards

and since then i would have had the chance to reflect on it a little bit more and describe it

here's a story for you

 the set of people who weigh 150 pounds is a subset of blonde people

if there are no people who weigh 150 pounds, then that is a null set. a null set is a subset of every other set

and statistically, it is not likely that anyone can weigh 150 pounds except by definition or by construction - they can easily fit inside of many epsilons of 150 pounds, but no simple feat of measurement is numerically accurate enough to make it so

and so i suppose this story is in fact not true

in statistics, it is not probable for any weight of person to exist, in that each individual number has a probability of zero

and we know that in fact, hundreds of people with specific measured weights must exist in real life despite that

if you go on the scale right now and measure it

it'll give you a number

it might not be a precise number, but it's just enough to keep going

to make the leap to believe that a number does exist, even if its not the one you're looking at

that you exist

perhaps there is someone out there who weighs 150 pounds

does that make real life implausible?