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Jorge Luís Borges predicted an effect the internet would have on people in the Library of Babel while comparing it to the Anthropic Principle. Discuss.

>> No.4393999

He didn't live to see the internet. Your argument is invalid.

>> No.4394004

>>4393999
is ur favorite element Db?

>> No.4394020

>>4394004

>Due to the small amounts produced and its short half-life, there are currently no uses for dubnium outside of basic scientific research.

Uh. Can't say I'm partial to it either way..

>> No.4394051

>>4393565
Not writing your paper for you.

>> No.4394054

>>4394004
;)

>> No.4394243

>>4393999
Hence the prediction of an effect that internet "would" have. And there is no paper being written. And the proximity between individuals permitted by the media was already long in the making in his days. So yeah... two sentence rebuttals may sound cool, but also asinine when obviously flawed... teenfag.

>> No.4394523

>>4393565
Are you going to explain why you think that so there can be actual discussion?

>> No.4394623

>>4394523
Briefly, that there is always an answer that fits what one is looking for, regardless of the code in which it is written.

May it be secluded amidst palimpsests or explicit in its formulation, it is always to be found in nature and/or textbooks, as long as you make use of the proper cypher.

I believe it will become impossible to search for words or ideas that possess no meaning, in a code or another and that this is apllicable to nature, as well as books.

What I mean by this is that all questions are flawed in their inception, as we cannot foresee that all answers and respective opposites are in the same measure as true as what the very symbols that compose the question can be.

Given free will as a logical impossibiliy, we only see want we want to see. And all answers are interchangeable, even with the questions themselves.

Try searching for something longer than five characters that does not produce a definition.

>> No.4394665

Let me correct that last bit as "shorter than six characters". But speaking in universal terms, I believe that lenght could be infinite.

>> No.4394715

>>4394665
The conclusion, or the aforementioned effect, is based on hopelessness.