The Infinite Monkey Theorem states if you get 1000 monkeys and give them 1000 type writers and give them an infinite amount of time then eventually they would write the complete works of Shakespeare.
To put that into perspective the complete works of Shakespeare consists of roughly 137 Plays and 154 Sonnets with a few larger poems, it is hard to divide them to give an accurate number of volumes but word count would put them into approximately 884,647 words.
However, you don’t need to have a thousand monkeys and a thousand type writers. It is either an infinite amount of moneys and type writers. Or, 1 money with a type writer and an infinite amount of time.
But there is a growing undercurrent of a challenge. You see I don’t think using Shakespeare as an example is doing justice to the Theorem or to Shakespeare, it would be better to say that the Monkeys randomly hitting a key board will have a much better chance of compiling the Oxford English Dictionary.
Why? You ask. Well let me explain it been 36 hours now in total and I’ve been randomly hitting my keyboard for approximately 2 hours per day at work and I realised if i hit the keyboard randomly any manager that passes by assumes that I’m actually working…another life hack, and I have come to the following conclusion.
I agree moneys randomly hitting keys a bit like myself currently will initially hit acronyms like AA (All American) and BBBB (Big Beautiful Blonde Babes) and eventually start to make word combinations such as “AS” both keys are side by side on a QWERTY keyboard followed most probably by “IS”, “IT”, “THE”, “FFS”,”OF”, and “IN” I am basing my hypothesis on the fact that after work and in the pursuit of scientific research I have tried this experiment several times at home in my own time by watching some crap on Netflix and at the same time hitting my laptop keyboard randomly, if I could find another monkey to help, I would.
In my humble opinion it is not inconceivable that with an infinite amount of time that a large chunk of the Oxford English Dictionary would be compiled but not in alphabetical order unless when we say with an infinite amount of time, but then with some deeper thinking this would mean that the monkeys would need enough time to once again evolve as they would have to lose their tails, why?
Once they become bipedal they would be able to type more consistently rather than hitting the keyboard their fingers over time would need to adjust and better coordinate then they would need to develop more of their prefrontal cortex, develop FOXP2 Gene and HAR1 Gene both linked to language and brain development… I could go on but hopefully your brain is wired enough to conclude that the works of Shakespeare would need more of an evolutionary jump than our 1000 monkeys compiling the Oxford English Dictionary.
The question than arises why am I being so protective over Shakespeare and his works
The question than arises why am I being so protective over Shakespeare and his works, well I’ve only ever read his basic works during my schooling, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream and after leaving school I totally forgot about Shakespeare until many years later whilst studying NLP and Hypnosis that it suddenly dawned on me, in fact I had my first and only moment of epiphany and that is without any hallucinatory gummies, choc bars, crystals or chasing dragons.
Shakespeare literally came over me, I realised Shakespeare was a hypnotist!
You see when I say Hypnotist or hypnosis I don’t mean Mesmerism, Stage, Traditional “The Do as I say” or the Self Hypnosis where you put on a penis pump (If you are a male that is) and scream affirmations “Grow” or “Day by day and in every way I’m getting bigger and bigger”
No I mean one of the cornerstones of NLP, (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) The Wishy, Washy, Language Patterny, Droozey, Dreamy world of Ericksonian Hypnosis, Covert Hypnosis and a myriad of similar Spoken Therapies where essentially the therapist gently nudges the client to use his own or her own imagination to become the catalyst for change.
For now, I am going to share some examples of wording used by Shakespeare to appeal to the senses and demonstrate how Shakespeare would encourage his audiences to trans-derive into their own imaginations…pure genius.
By subtly and artfully using language Shakespeare would like any great author get into your head.
Below are some examples, perhaps as you begin to read them, you too will now begin to appreciate the mastery that Shakespeare possessed.
“Yon light is not day-light, I know it, I:
It is some meteor that the sun exhales.”
(Romeo and Juliet, Act 3, Scene 5)
Juliet describes the light in the sky, creating a vivid visual image of the sun and a meteor,
“The clamorous owl that nightly hoots and wonders At our quaint spirits.”
(A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 2, Scene 2)
The hooting of the owl sets a night time atmosphere and mood
“I have supp’d full with horrors:
Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts,
Cannot once start me.”
(Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5)
The phrase “supp’d full with horrors” and “Slaughterous thoughts”convey an overwhelming internal sensation of emotional numbness and dread
“Here’s the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia
will not sweeten this little hand. O, O, O!”
(Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 1)
Lady Macbeth is haunted by the imagined smell of blood, evoking olfactory imagery associated with guilt.
“Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow!”
(A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 3, Scene 2)
This compares lips to cherries, appealing to both taste and sight.
This was Shakespeare’s genius throughout his works he littered them with the hypnotist’s SECRET OF SECRETS, I won’t give the SECRET of SECRETS away just yet, I’m going to dedicate a whole series of blogs to this topic, treat this blog as just the warmup…
