The Library of Babel - Everything that was, is and will be.

Post » Tue Sep 29, 2015 11:03 am

So I was watching a recent episode of Vsauce that talks about the messages we have sent to the future (space probes and such) and they got to talking about The Library of Babel which literally contains ever written phrase that has ever existed or ever will exist.

https://youtu.be/GDrBIKOR01c?t=1020

To give you an idea of how massive this library is it contains 10x5000 pages. There are only estimated to be 10x80 atoms in the observable universe.

Seriously write anything in it's search.... it already exists.

https://libraryofbabel.info/

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Jodie Bardgett
 
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Post » Tue Sep 29, 2015 8:01 am

This is an idea of Jorge Luis Borges, a guy who gets referenced in philosophy of computing (yes there is such a thing). It comes up in the book "The Mind's I", which I think was actually a mandatory text in the engineering department of my university. It's a Turing kind of a thing.

It from bit, baby.

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