If you put a an infinite amount of Shakespears in a room for an infinite time, would they write like a Monkey

Question

They have type writers, just couldn't fit it in

Answer 1

Actually that was pretty funny.

The problem of course is that the Shakespeare's would not write randomly. They would write stories.

Technically speaking, you would get everything that could ever be written out of the monkeys, because they have no idea what they are doing. The Shakespeare's would only give you a subset, even over an infinite amount of time, of what the monkeys would type.

So the answer is no. The monkeys would type everything that could be typed, including what the Shakespeare's would have written. The Shakespeare's would not type everything the monkeys did.

Score:

Infinite Shakespeare's 0
Infinite Monkeys 1

Answer 2

No. Shakespeares converge to classical literature as we understand his works to be. In parallel universes they may vary in content, but remain brilliantly classic.

On the otherhand, infinite monkeys will eventually produce a classic resembling Shakespeare, by pure chance. One would be more likely to win a jackpot on the national lottery: so its would be quicker, and less trouble, to go to a bookshop and buy the Complete Works of Shakespeare.

Answer 3

I was hoping someone would ask that.

The logical inconsistance here is that you cannot, by definition, fit an infinite number of Shakespears and type writers into a finite space. So sadly, the answer is no.

Answer 4

If you put to many Shakesphears in one room, the power of their literary minds would fuse together creating a giant electrical cloud that would destroy the Bahamas, causing in the future no good place to go for vaction. Then everyone would die out without the jolly Bahamans. Creating a second Black plege destroying the Earth, Intill Albert Einstein comes to the future by means of the electrictal cloud and tells everyone to balance a banna on their head and suck on a glass of water. Soon everyone feels better, creating normaltality to the world as we now know it.

Answer 5

In an infinite space-time continuum, it simply would have been impossible for Shakespeare to grab hold of his cast and make them work for him for nothing. Who would have, for example, stood there to be burned and churned in the furnace of Shakespeare’s mind wthout even being paid - ever? Who, in his or her right mind, would have liked to live for a creator who himself says ‘O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell. And count myself a king of infinite space . . . were it not that I have bad dreams’. Do you really think that a king, or a queen, or a courtier would have liked to live a life that is so harshly realistic, unavoidably cataclysmic, fatefully tragic, hilariously comical and painful, poignantly framed or irritatingly flawed - and eternal? No my friend, I do not think so. You see, given all that infinite time and space at their disposal these beings, who are now destined to populate his world, would very simply have run away. They would have realised that to live, work and labour in the book; and to be a fodder of merciless literary critiques forever, is simple too much to endure. Look at the Hollywood stars! These are some of the beings who have been able to make their escape in a bid for life from the lashing pens of many a discontented poets, novelists and dramatists – and look at them now they are celebrating and happy.


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Answer 6

That sounds a bit like the answers brain challenge. After 72 hours a monkey would make sense!

Answer 7

Would they even know how to operate the typewriters so often used in these random experiments?

Will Americans ever develop a sense of irony, facilitating a fall from their high horses?

Wanna play questions?

Answer 8

I was trying to think of a clever answer but as I finish up the graveyard shift here in the purple brain in times square, I just don't seem to be able to come up with one.

Answer 9

Only if the fruit bat sang to Anne Hathaway.

Answer 10

What a question! Sorry, that's the dumbest question I've ever heard.