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To: Southack; tortoise
"In no way, shape, or form can complex programs or works of Shakespeare EVER be demonstrated to appear out of randomness no matter how much finite time you have, no matter how much computing power you throw at it, no matter what you do." -- Southack to Tortoise

Add a little algorithm that picks letter sequences as they appear to match dictionary entries, checks all combinations formed out of these words, selects only for grammatically correct phrases of those combinations, filter and match it to the existing text of Shakespeare's work, reuse any word or phrase as needed and you could get one monkey and a computer to do the job for you in about the time it would take the monkey to type enough letters to fill the book. The difference is that you have added selection to the random process.

Probability arguments that do not include selection have zero relevance to the real world where selection operates continuously.

364 posted on 03/05/2002 10:21:47 AM PST by Vercingetorix
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To: Vercingetorix
"Add a little algorithm that picks letter sequences as they appear to match dictionary entries, checks all combinations formed out of these words, selects only for grammatically correct phrases of those combinations, filter and match it to the existing text of Shakespeare's work, reuse any word or phrase as needed and you could get one monkey and a computer to do the job for you in about the time it would take the monkey to type enough letters to fill the book. The difference is that you have added selection to the random process."

No, the difference is that you have added INTELLIGENCE to your process. It is no longer either random or natural.

What you've done is demonstrate that an Intelligent Process can cretae the works of Shakespeare. That's never been in dispute.

Also, you seem to have fallen on your face in regards to being able to substantiate the ten claims that you made in Post #352. If you can't substantiate them and want to appear even remotely intellectually honest, then you'll have to retract them.

365 posted on 03/05/2002 10:26:31 AM PST by Southack
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