/sci/ - Science & Math

why the hell is [math](-\pi)^\pi[/math] a complex number

What is the mechanic by which individual consciousnesses are bound to corporeal forms
Someone recently implied to me that if they had fucked my mother around the time my dad did they would be my father
This was obviously meant as a joke but the question is really fucking with me. There's some reason I am me and not anyone else. There is by implication some process that determined which whether my consciousness emerges or didn't. My friend's statement seems to imply that consciousness is bound to the egg-- that mum's egg + anyone's sperm = me. But why couldn't it be sperm that consciousness is bound to? Or if any individual egg + any individual sperm would have led to my non-existence-- consciousness is a cross-product? Please fucking help me scientists