Comment by Mawr

> Is your life a random coincidence? Not at all.

Of course it is. That you do not like the idea of something does not in any way affect whether it's true. You'd like to feel special, but there is absolutely nothing special to us. We're just a random arrangement of atoms in the universe. That is objectively true, whether you like it or not.

That you were born at all is obviously completely random. Any prior event by any other party (butterfly effect) may as well have resulted in you never existing at all.

The only question is if basic physical effects are really random or deterministic, but that's irrelevant to us, there is no practical difference. In practice, it's all random.

And yes, our thoughts are just neurons firing as a result of our lifelong training on the inputs we were given (senses). It's all very complex, yes, but ultimately not fundamentally different from what a machine could do.