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c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social |
Let's talk about the Library of Babel & what it says about PROTEIN EVOLUTION. (long 🧪 thread) Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian author & librarian, wrote a story about an infinite library, filled with every possible combination of 25 basic characters (letters, space, comma, period) of 410 pages.
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c0nc0rdance
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Because almost all of the books contain only meaningless gibberish, they're all essentially useless. But they also contain every book ever written (within 410 pages) & every variation on every book ever written. Hamlet, but where all the characters are named Norm, for example.
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JX Bardant
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Borges is amazing... He also wrote another story in the same book Fictions, named The Garden of Forking Paths (1941) that is a perfect illustration of the multiverse hypothesis in quantum theory.
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