Monkeys at keyboards… Let’s see if I got this right…
You take an infinite number of monkeys (an impossibility) and seat them each at a device that took many men many years and lots of thought to develop (the keyboards). These devices are connected to an even more complex device that took many people many years and lots of logical thought to develop and manufacture (the computers). These in turn are connected to another device that it took much intelligence and thought to develop and manufacture (the monitors). After the monkeys have hammered away at the keyboards for some time, someone uses his capacity for rational thought to determine whether any of the monkeys has typed the entire works of Shakespeare (which it took lots of thought to produce). And all of this is done to prove that it is possible for things to come into existence without any intelligent thought behind it.
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And that was BEFORE all the AI Bots!
Hobbes the dragon Premium Member about 3 hours ago
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steveh64 about 1 hour ago
But information about happenings in a galaxy far, far away takes a long, long time to get here.
Purple People Eater 26 minutes ago
Monkeys at keyboards… Let’s see if I got this right…
You take an infinite number of monkeys (an impossibility) and seat them each at a device that took many men many years and lots of thought to develop (the keyboards). These devices are connected to an even more complex device that took many people many years and lots of logical thought to develop and manufacture (the computers). These in turn are connected to another device that it took much intelligence and thought to develop and manufacture (the monitors). After the monkeys have hammered away at the keyboards for some time, someone uses his capacity for rational thought to determine whether any of the monkeys has typed the entire works of Shakespeare (which it took lots of thought to produce). And all of this is done to prove that it is possible for things to come into existence without any intelligent thought behind it.
Is that about it?