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14293879 No.14293879 [Reply] [Original]

>There exists infinite possible books

Don't think about this too much, or it will cause you psychic trauma.

>> No.14293903

>There exists finite possible books of a given length
This one hurts more.

>> No.14293928

Who cares? 99% of actual books are dogshit.
How many of those hypothetical ones are? How many are exactly the same barring one piece of dialogue or a word?
Maybe the most meaningless though experiment I've ever heard of.

>> No.14293938

>>14293879
Library of Babel

>> No.14294189

>>14293879

>there exists infinite possible self published book fairs entirely dedicated to obese writers who identify with werewolves
>there exists infinite possible werewolf softcore books of a given length
>et ainsi de suite...

every consequence of this assumption is rather what what keeps me alive tbqh famalam

>> No.14294203
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14294203

>>14293879
>The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type any given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare. In fact, the monkey would almost surely type every possible finite text an infinite number of times. However, the probability that monkeys filling the observable universe would type a complete work such as Shakespeare's Hamlet is so tiny that the chance of it occurring during a period of time hundreds of thousands of orders of magnitude longer than the age of the universe is extremely low (but technically not zero).

>> No.14294209

>>14294189

>there exists infinite possible books about a boxing match between mecha-Nietzsche and reptile-Marx that turn into cooking books halfway througH

>> No.14294251

>>14294209

I feel myself going mad. This isn't good.

>> No.14294260

>>14294251

>there is an infinite amount of possible books about tiny elves living under your foreskin

>> No.14294262

>There exist an infinite amount of variations on Finnegans Wake

>> No.14294271

There is an infinite amount of possible books with insights so profound no real, flawed human will ever be able to come up with them.

>> No.14294272

>>14294209
Now that I would like to read.

>> No.14294275

Even crazier is the fact that every possible book will be an actual book given infinite time.

>> No.14294279

>>14294262
There are hundreds of thousands of versions where it's Finnegan's Wake but one word is spelled slightly differently alone. Nothing would change of course, as it's all meaningless drivel propped up by pseuds in academia.

>> No.14294284

>There is an infinite amount of possible books in which all your posts on 4chan are analyzed and deconstructed

>> No.14294301
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14294301

>>14294279
>meaningless drivel

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>>14294301
>schizoshit

>> No.14294314

>>14294307
>he does not believe schizophrenia is the end result of literacy

>> No.14294316

>There exists infinite possible books about OPs mom getting it in the ass

Really makes the noggin' joggin'

>> No.14294332

>>14293879
books exist in contexts, they are not just the words and letters. If the critique of pure reason had been written by a greek slave it would be a bunch of meaningless nonsense.

>> No.14294350

>>14294332

That's so retarded I have no idea where to begin.

The information in the book is still the same, the conclusion the reader draws from the book (should) still be the same.

It's like if Good Will Hunting solves the equation on the blackboard and then the professor says his conclusion is wrong because he is a janitor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_the_Author

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14294359

>>14294209
sure enough

>> No.14294370

>>14293938
Exactly what I was thinking.

>> No.14294377

>>14294359
incredibly based

>> No.14294378

>>14294314
>nonsensical memes just to spite me

>> No.14294384

>>14294359
>eighteenth century

>> No.14294392

>>14294359

Holy fuck that's the funniest thing I've seen in a long time.

>> No.14294413

>>14294359


I am >>14294209 and I can't stop laughing, tears are actually streaming down my cheeks.
Thank you for this.

>> No.14294419

>>14294413
My pleasure, anon! Glad I could make you laugh!

>> No.14294432

>>14294189
>there exists infinite possible werewolf softcore books of a given length
No, if it is of a given length the possibilities are finite.

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>>14294350
please don't call me retarded when you are basing your argument on a wikipedia page for an essay you have clearly not even read and a barely coherent mathematical analogy.

How would a reference to Isaac Newton make any sense if it was written before Isaac Newton was born? It would simply be nonsense, to make sense it has to be written in a context where other people understand what 'Newtonian' means. If you found pic related on a piece of Mesopotamian pottery it would not be the theory of relativity because none of these symbols had the meanings we attach to them in Mesopotamia - the symbols would just be random shapes.

>> No.14294454

>>14294439

Your words mean nothing to me I'm watching the culinary-philosophical kaiju heavyweight bout of the century.

>> No.14294628

>>14294359
kek

>> No.14295085

>>14294350
>>14294439
BTFO

>> No.14295340

>>14294384

>There is an infinite amount of possible novels with historical mistakes

>> No.14296659

>>14293928
>99% of infinity

>> No.14296826

>>14294350
There you go
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Menard,_Author_of_the_Quixote

>> No.14296833

>>14293879
Actually potential infinite number of books until the end of time

>> No.14296837

>>14294203
This is basically evolutionary thoery

>> No.14296956

>>14293879
Depends. If you impose a page limit on what you consider a "possible book", then the number of possible combinations of words, or even characters, inside that page limit can't be infinite.

And if a book is so long that its contents can't be recorded within the matter constraints of the universe can that really be called a "possible book?"

>> No.14296996

>>14293879
>there exists in the Library of Babel a work greater than Shakespeare, greater than Dante, greater than Cervantes and Homer and all the rest
>we just haven’t looked in the right place yet