You&#x27;re never going to shuffle a deck of cards 52!+1 times. It&#x27;s unique within the extent of this physical universe. If that&#x27;s not the universe of discourse, you&#x27;re going to need to specify what is.<p>Of course life is special. But it&#x27;s not special <i>just because it&#x27;s rare</i>. I don&#x27;t know why it&#x27;s special, but I do know that&#x27;s not it. And I know that whether or not life is random, even if it <i>would</i> be repeated in a universe with infinite time, it would remain special.<p>If your definition of &quot;special&quot; relies upon subtle facts about the universe that may not ever be knowable... I&#x27;m going back to &quot;that&#x27;s really weird&quot;.<p>Similarly, I know that special and valuable aren&#x27;t the same thing. But I don&#x27;t have a good definition of special (you gave a bad one), so I was attempting to point at the sort of things that correlate with it.