• BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    It’s a thought experiment, not an observation. The idea is that if you have infinity and it’s truly random than eventually all possibilities emerge somewhere within that.

    The idea of infinite monkeys typing randomly on infinite typewriters is that eventually one of them would accidentally type out all the works of Shakespeare. Many more would type out parts of the works of Shakespeare. And many many many more would type random garbage.

    If we then take that forwadd imagine for a moment the multiverse is also infinite and random, then every possible universe would exist somewhere in that multiverse.

    It can be taken in other directions too. It’s a way of cocneptualising the implications of infinity and true randomness.

    Meanwhile actual Shakespeare had intelligence and wrote and created his works. Him being a monkey writing Shakespeare is just a sly humerous observation, but it has nothing to do with the actual meaning of the thought experiment and the idea it is trying to convey.

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      11 days ago

      Yeah, the point isn’t that they could write Shakespeare. But that they would write everything we could imagine + everything in between that.

      It tries to explain the concept of infinity. Which is mind boggling to any human.

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      11 days ago

      Also since it should happen once, that means that it also happens an infinite number of times, but a smaller infinity than the whole infinity.

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      11 days ago

      Did you choose to overlook my intentional usage of the word “chosen” just to mansplain something obvious? I did not make my choice out of ignorance, but I appreciate you assuming I did.