Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Doctor Stochastic
The string that I constructed, 11011100101110111... (concatenating the integers in binary) will contain the works of Shakespeare somewhere within the string. It's constructive.

Well, wishing does not make it so. I doubt very much that without the aid of a computer either you or I could translate the works of Shakespeare into a binary string in our lifetimes (if nothing else we would probably die of boredom!). However, for such a string to arise at random is utterly impossible. Yes, impossible. To set up a set of rules to create it would be a tremendous task. But again, the problem is not of copying something, it is of creating something. To create one must look forward, one must have insight, one must have intuition, a muse perhaps, things which matter does not have.

592 posted on 06/27/2003 7:27:50 PM PDT by gore3000 (Intelligent people do not believe in evolution.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 568 | View Replies ]


To: gore3000
The rules I posted do generate the works of Shakespeare. It's constructive. There are proofs on the net as well as in the literature.

The string constructed as I described also generates all of Dante and Emerson and Spillane.
594 posted on 06/27/2003 8:28:59 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 592 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson