The Mind-Bending World of Heuristic Emergence Might Mean We're Artificial

The chances of being struck by lightning in the U.S. over the course of a single year are 700 000 to 1, or 7 x 10,000 to 1. Around 99.8% of all the mass in our solar system is held in the Sun. The number of Hydrogen atoms in all the Earth’s water is only about 10¹⁰ less than 34 times the odds of winning the lottery. The Milky Way galaxy is a barred spiral containing approximately 100 billion light.