I know. It would solve the health care crisis if everyone would die before that.
Are you volunteering?
His demonstration was in *support *of his assertion. And so did not demonstrate enough.
Gavagai!
I have read that the number of intestinal fauna that you’ll have in your guts over the course of your life is greater than the number of human beings who have ever lived. Most of you, of course, is not actually you. You don’t even fart your own farts; you outsource that.
It demonstrated the minimum necessary to support the claim. That is sufficient.
This is only true on terms of cell count. In terms of biomass, it’s not even close. Unless, by “you” you mean the mind, in which case all of your mass isn’t you. Or something.
Well, I think the cite I read was including, say, mitochondria.
When I was 8 or 9, our family was at my favorite swimming pool. I was tooling around with my face half in the water - my eyes were just above water level. Everything looked so neat from that perspective, that I wished my parents could see it. And then it hit me - they don’t have my eyes in my head, so they’ll never see anything exactly the same way as I do. Whoa. As I grew older, that realization expanded to my thoughts and feelings as well. Not one other person will ever see things exactly the way I do. Mind-blowing to a kid.
I see your point. Oh wait…
Don’t fret, a lot of really deep things like that are right-brained spacial rather than left-brain verbal (God the father vs. Logos the Son??). The best art is for example.
I don’t understand your point of saying this. My post was meant to demonstrate that average <> median but it looks like you are trying to tell me the same thing.
I was demonstrating how the average could be less than 2. Had I included people without legs that would only drop the average even further. If you really wanted to correct me, you would need to point out that I hadn’t included people with 4 or more legs as they would raise the average. In short, no I didn’t include every count of legs and then do a weighted average. But pointing out that I didn’t include a group that would only strengthen the original claim seems strange to me.
Two things. First, it wasn’t my assertion. Once again, I was merely demonstrating how it is possible. Second, see above. If I didn’t demonstrate enough because I didn’t include all counts of legs, why in the world would you point out the group that would only strengthen the original assertion?
To die before my last two years of life? Sure, once I get the paradox worked out. 
Yeah I’m not getting how an example given to explain a point is suddenly required to include every possible scenario of the real situation the example is being used to explain.
How many people are needed so you can live an average day. Everyone that has anything to do with getting your food, furniture, houses, roads, cars, computers, clothes, etc. etc. etc. Must be over 10 million when you think about it.
My eye-opening realization: that both of my daughters, now ages 1 and 3, are not as far removed from their freshman years of college as I am. :eek:
This and the realization of just how far most of us are from being able to forage for ourselves should something devastating happen to interrupt the food supply.
Along similar lines:
Practically everything man-made you see was the result of someone somewhere sometime sitting down and designing it. Or at least specced it out (like the dimensions of an asphalt parking lot). And then someone had to put it together. Everything from buildings to cars to paper clips to q-tips to thumbtacks to bicycles to airplanes to shoelaces to belts to…
Or maybe it was put together by an automated system. In which case, someone had to sit down and design a thing to automatically build some other thing. And someone had to build that.
As a consequence of the above, if I’m every flipping around channels and come across “How it’s made” on the Discovery channel, I’m usually glued to it. Watching raw materials go in one end of a machine and have finished {whatever}s come out the other end without ever being touched by human hands…it’s fascinating.
Just to take it a small step further…
Every man-made object was the product of someone’s imagination. This keyboard that I’m typing at right now started as a thought in someone’s head.
In fact, every person started out as simply a thought in someone’s head (something along the lines of “wow, I’m horny.”)
So we’re all just the product of imagination.
Definitely. On the other hand, this is not due to any loss of our foraging capabilities under civilization, but rather there being so many people. I’d guess that if there were only as many people around as there were during much of prehistory, and the former game species were not mostly depopulated, the average person wouldn’t starve if they were in a non-desert temperate environment.
Succumb to plant poisoning is another story…