> the probability of you winning the lottery is 10000000000000x more favorable than the probability of you existing in this universe. Is it, though? This clai

> the probability of you winning the lottery is 10000000000000x more favorable than the probability of you existing in this universe. Is it, though? This claim ultimately hinges on the probability of life occurring in the universe, and that's pretty hard to assess given our lack of encounters with extraterrestrial life. Once life is established and subject to evolutionary processes, I hypothesize that intelligent life is - barring some mass extinction event preventing it - just about inevitable; evolution will select for greater and greater intelligence until the local lifeforms achieve sapience (and possibly beyond even that, i.e. levels of intelligence we mere apes are incapable of comprehending).