ment will always be clear but it's not actually what's there or what your eye is picking up. So yeah reality is kind of weird.

The other possibility is that these coincidences are something called a coincidence and they don't mean anything at all and you're not in the simulation and there are no doppelgangers and none of it's real. I mean if you're going to bet on it I think I'd bet on it just being a coincidence but it's fun.

Here's another possibility for doppelgangers. This from a reply by Michael Guarin and I think I'll just read it because it's so well expressed. I've never heard this before and Michael says genes like energy are conserved as scale to which I say I don't know what that means but he goes on he says they don't go away but will resurface. There's been some decent evidence that humans have suffered several population bottlenecks which is when the total number of people alive worldwide was quite small which kind of makes sense with my earlier conversation of civilizations coming and going. One such example comes from Rutgers I think in a 2005 or 2006 some kind of study that all pre-1492 Native Americans descend from approximately 100 people that crossed the land bridge. Now that kind of makes sense doesn't it? Like if you assume that Native Americans got through over that little land bridge that was frozen for much of history but at some point they could walk it you wouldn't really guess that a million people came over. I would guess small group you know made it so and maybe a lot of people died on the way etc. But what if it's true that a hundred people came across or that in history there are a number of other times when the total number of people got really small and then that group had to regrow the population.

So as Michael Guarin goes on he said you would expect if the bottleneck was small enough and the total population today large enough that there would be lots of doppelgangers because the way genetics work is you don't always create something that's like a copy of yourself but you can create maybe a couple generations down something that was pretty close to you just by chance. So doppelgangers would not be unusual if they all came from the first group of a hundred but it would be very unusual if your starting group was a million. Does that make sense? So it could be one reason why you see more doppelgangers than you think ought to be normal.

And then I would add to that I said this on my man cave last night. We're going to tie it all together now. Do you know how some people seem like old souls and if you say to me Scott what does that mean what do you mean by an old soul my answer would be I'm not really sure but I feel like I know it when I see it right and I think most of you would say the same thing. I'm not really sure how to define that. I kind of know it when I see it right. There are some children who are just born adults. I happened to be one of them. I was basically born an adult and it feels like they have an old soul but what if they are very similar genetically to some relative from before like in my case my grandfather. I'm told I never met him because he died when I was in the womb but I'm told that I'm sort of the personality spitting image of my grandfather I never met but not so much my father. My father was differ