Hypothetically speaking, you got a monkey that is supposed to randomly type for the rest of eternity. He's got an endless supply of paper, endless supply of ink, etc....everything he needs to type for eternity. When it's time to start typing, the monkey takes the typewriter and smashes it to pieces. Furthermore, his intention is to never type anything. Will this monkey ever type the book, War and Peace ? Oh yeah, the type writer won't be replaced either.
2006-12-09 11:15:04 · 12 answers · asked by Count Acumen 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Give an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of typewriters, the theory goes, and they will eventually produce prose the likes of Shakespeare.
Give six monkeys one computer for a month, and they will make a mess.
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.
"They pressed a lot of S's," researcher Mike Phillips said Friday. "Obviously, English isn't their first language."
A 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. Then, they waited.
At first, said Phillips, "the lead male got a stone and started bashing the hell out of it.
"Another thing they were interested in was in defecating and urinating all over the keyboard," added Phillips, who runs the university's Institute of Digital Arts and Technologies.
Eventually, monkeys Elmo, Gum, Heather, Holly, Mistletoe and Rowan produced five pages of text, composed primarily of the letter S. Later, the letters A, J, L and M crept in.
2006-12-09 11:21:23 · answer #1 · answered by roscoedeadbeat 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
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2016-11-30 09:12:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Tolstoy already wrote War and Peace. The monkey is redundant, just aping a great author.
2006-12-09 11:25:08 · answer #3 · answered by pat z 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no probibly not unless by distroying the typewrighter he makes a pen nessisary, or would that be replacing the typewrighter? besids how would you get a monkey to type war and peace any way. there would be way too many tipos to sell monkey typed books cheep
2006-12-09 11:24:16 · answer #4 · answered by Myself 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The monkey will not finish, but he will be replacing Tom Cruise in an upcoming movie about the life of G. Dubya.
2006-12-09 11:24:44 · answer #5 · answered by Shaula 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The monkey will continue to toss the bits and pieces and enjoy smashing what is left. He does not need to rewrite what has been written.
2006-12-09 11:24:55 · answer #6 · answered by DinahLynne 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not once the typewriter has been destroyed, unless he now has to write it by hand or paw as the case may be.
2006-12-09 11:21:53 · answer #7 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lol dogs dont chew bubble gum
2006-12-09 11:23:33 · answer #8 · answered by luke l 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. That monkey's done.
2006-12-09 11:17:27 · answer #9 · answered by ROBERT L O 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No. But he will write it by dipping his fingers in his poo.
2006-12-09 13:53:03 · answer #10 · answered by Voodoid 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋