“There is almost zero chance to appear in this world,” he says. “My mother met my father by accident. The combination of genes and experience makes us who we are, and the chance that we’re born is so minimal, it’s a statistical zero. But,” he adds, without a twinge of emotion, “there is a 100 percent chance that all of us will one day die. What will people remember about us? Who will remember what I did to make this world better? We remember Shakespeare because of what he contributed to the world. That’s the goal of life, to make the world better. My philosophy is that every human being has the chance to do that. A taxi driver, a cook, a scientis…