In this column, I will focus on the marshaling of information, that is, finding a way for the sender to format the information so that the receiver can understand it.Ī good place to begin is with typewriters.
Billions of people use it but the works of Shakespeare have not randomly resulted. Some say that the internet itself offers such a test. Unfortunately, the macaques also relieved themselves on the keyboards.ĭespite the entertainment value provided by the use of live monkeys, Huxley’s contention was a serious one: Mathematically, given infinite resources, would not the works of Shakespeare be typed out? If so, meaning does not require intelligence can arise from inanimate and meaningless sources. Associated Press, “ Monkeys Don’t Write Shakespeare” at Wired (May 9, 2003) “Obviously, English isn’t their first language.”Ī group of faculty and students in the university’s media program left a computer in the monkey enclosure at Paignton Zoo in southwest England, home to six Sulawesi crested macaques. “They pressed a lot of S’s,” researcher Mike Phillips said Friday. Researchers at Plymouth University in England reported this week that primates left alone with a computer attacked the machine and failed to produce a single word. Independently, in 2003, enterprising researchers gave a group of monkeys keyboards, in what they were willing to discuss as a test of the theory: In 2000, a tongue-in-cheek “protocol” for such an experiment was developed. If you give an infinite number of monkeys typewriters and allow them to type freely, will they eventually produce the works of Shakespeare? Call this the infinite monkey theorem (IMT), widely attributed to Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895), best remembered today as “Darwin’s Bulldog” for his defense of Darwin’s theory of evolution. We are trying to find more and more universes which have some evidence of life on it.Share Facebook Twitter Print arroba Email As we know, there are infinite number of universes. This gets more interesting when you apply this theorem to the universe. And they randomly start hitting the keys on the typewriter, there is a probability that one of those monkey will type out the whole Shakespeare’s Hamlet. So, what this theorem says is that if there are 26¹⁰⁰⁰ monkeys, and they all are given typewriters. But here’s the twist, it is almost equal to zero but NOT ZERO! (Here, the monkey using typewriter represents randomness) Continuing like this, let’s consider that there are 1000 letters on that page, the probability of the monkey typing out this whole page would 1/26¹⁰⁰⁰!! Yes, that’s almost negligible, that is ALMOST equal to zero. What would be the probability of it typing the next letter? 1/26².
So, the probability that he would type the first letter correct is 1/26. To simply our problem, let us suppose that the typewriter given to the monkey has only 26 keys, i.e only the alphabets.
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