Why you as a living, breathing, and now reading human being is in fact a number, statistic. An arbitrary value to be precise.
The image below is approximately as arbitrary as you are.
https://interestingengineering.com/15-unusual-weather-phenomena-that-are-hard-to-come-across
To say anyone was of any particular value would normally be appreciated by that someone. However, I can’t imagine anyone would like if they were called an arbitrary value. But that’s you. You are that!
Let me explain.
A good starting point is to look at what a ‘value’ is. Value has several meanings as both a noun and a verb which makes the water for which see you my claim as insult very muddy from the offset. It could refer to something you hold in great regard and with immense importance. It could also refer to your standards of behaviour according to the WiKi. For the latter, it wouldn’t make too much sense and so my argument earlier in this passage is defeated with one google search. It would be a very obvious insult. But wait why would it even be considered an insult anyway.
‘Arbitrary’ refers to something that is based on ‘random choice’ or ‘reasonless’ ‘not planned’. We like to believe that we were planned for as babies, that our parents were deliberating a special way to bring you into the world. They didn’t even choose you in fact you are the luckiest person alive. The chance of you being born in 1 in 400 Trillion so the likeliness that your parents prepared to have you specifically is that same chance. Whatever comes, comes out. Therefore, to call you “unplanned” as you read this because you are a human being that can read, more importantly, you are a HUMAN BEING, would be a fair statement.
Reasonless. I couldn’t tell you why I do 50% of what I do. Intuition, motivation, feelings, or thought or some other innate reason like “it’s my purpose”. This could be another piece in its itself so I will just say our reasons aren’t as reasonable as they seem to us in our heads. An exercise to reach another dimension of thinking is to take the first thought you get and ask it why. Instead, ask “Why though” and if you do that enough, maybe you won’t be reasonless.
Some sibling arbitrary values and examples:
$3x = 9$ So this expression is true for arbitrary values(unspecific or undetermined). You could solve it and in that case, x = 3. There is no other value of x for which the expression is true unless there is no new branch of maths related to finding solutions that don’t actually exist that I am not aware of.
