An Infinite Amount of Monkeys
Posted on Feb 23rd, 2006
by 
Rob
Rob
It’s been said that if you had an infinite amount of monkeys sitting at an infinite amount of typewriters, eventually one of them would write War and Peace. While this is most likely false(odds are that you’d end up with an infinite number of pages full of random letters), it makes for an entertaining thought experiment. If we can’t fathom any monkeys writing this classic piece of literature, then we must not be imagining enough monkeys. War and Peace exists as a reflection of the totality of all the information in the universe after all, does it not? Tolstoy doesn’t really own authorship of it all as the possibilities had to somehow pre-exist in order for him to capitalize on them, right? which is why an infinite amount of monkeys, on an infinite amount of typewriters would end up with at least one copy of the book (and every other piece of conceivable literature for that matter). With an infinite amount of possibility and an infinite number of expressions of that possibility, it’s got to be inevitable, right? It's almost as though 'possibility' is the author of itself, and we are merely the vessels it chooses....since possibility even precedes our descisions. It would seem that credit for anything is due more to the totality of existence than to the individuals and segments that compose it. Kind of inspires one to subjectively embrace it all rather than to take on further subjective biases and positionalities. -Rob
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I like the way you think Rob(-:
Actually, it would only take two monkeys.
The two monkeys from Madagascar :)
(the cartoon about escaped zoo animals int he wild - see it unless you already have)
The two monkeys are ridiculous. One, who sounds like a British professor, can not read, and the other who sounds like a moron can read. The professor interprets the “idiot’s” ramble. Its quite hilarious.
Those two would write (and probably already did) War and Peace, and then they would move on to Chekov, Dostoyevski, and every other Russian great. :}
The Monkeys from Madagascar are the best. Simply the best.
I like the way Rob thinks too only I wonder if Rob actually does any thinking at all. He’s just capatilizing on pre-existing possibilities. Am I right? But I guess they call that thinking. And besides… there’s one thing Rob brings to the table that only Rob brings to the table and that’s Rob. Not seperate Rob of course. But whole Rob, freely functioning integrated Rob. In tolkienic fashion he is: The one Rob to Rob them all, and in the darkness Rob them. lol.
Rob on,
Brian David.
PS: really did enjoy the post. really do like the way you think, as you know.