Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
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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 be…

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ent than both of us. So it could be that the genes you know did their thing and I just became very much like my grandfather.

Now here's the interesting thing. I don't know if epigenetics or Lamarckian stuff I don't know if any of that's real. Is it possible that a grandfather could have a life experience that modified his genes in a way that I would pick up two generations later? Is that possible? A lot of people say yes but just for fun let's say it is. Just for fun what would happen if my grandfather had a life experience that modified his genes and then I'm born later would I pick up some of the qualities that would be associated with wait for it lived experience. In other words could my genes have picked up experience in a way in like an indirect way that came from another human? If so it would be very much like I had inherited an older soul but I'd done it the honest way through my genes you know nothing magic nothing outside of the physical realm but it would feel exactly like a soul being passed down and I wonder if I would even have some awareness of it because I feel as if I do. I actually feel the length of that connection to my grandfather I've never met but it's probably mental because my mother used to mention it a lot but anyway maybe there's something to genes and souls.

Well let's go to politics. The Supreme Court as you know rejected the request to expedite Jack Smith's the prosecutor's question about whether Trump would be immune because he was a president during some of the accusations. Now the Supreme Court rejected reviewing it which means that now the lower court can do its thing because the request had been hey if we think this is going to get to the Supreme Court anyway can we just skip this middle step because it's a waste of time. So the Supreme Court said nope you are not going to skip the middle step which I kind of understand. The middle step exists for a reason and they did not have a compelling reason to skip the middle

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step so they didn't want to do it just because it's important. I like that. I like the fact that they weren't willing to do it just because it's important because that wasn't the right reason. That's not the reason. The reason should be that the lower court didn't get it right or something and there was a reason to appeal. That's the reason they should handle it so they stuck to it. I like it. I'm…

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