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Darren New <dne### [at] san rr com> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > So at which point exactly will it happen with 100% certainty?
> When an infinite number of flips are flipped, and not before.
In other words, never.
> > "At infinity" is the same thing as "never" in this case.
> It has nothing to do with "time", so you are technically correct in saying
> that it's physically impossible to do an infinite number of flips in a
> non-infinite length of time.
Thus the monkey analogy is technically flawed. Which is my original point.
> >> Resolve this discrepency, in your mind, and you'll understand why
> >> shakespeare must appear.
> >
> > Once you explain to me the discrepancy that an event having zero
> > probability can happen.
> When you do it an infinite number of times.
But it happens with only one attempt, not an infinite amount of them.
> Do you understand what I'm saying when I say you're confusing unbounded with
> infinite?
The monkey analogy is trying to make a connection between theoretical
math dealing with infinites and physical reality, which are at completely
different conceptual levels. I do not fully understand the math, but I'm
pretty sure I understand the physical process depicted by the analogy,
and I'm pretty sure the claim is flawed.
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- Warp
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