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THE ATLAS OF THE REALITY TUNNEL

The Library of Babel

nature
A library containing every possible book of a given length — therefore every truth, every refutation of every truth, and an unimaginably vaster quantity of noise.

What happens when a map contains everything: total information becomes indistinguishable from none. A useful thing to hold in mind about any modern search engine.
rhymes with
sephirahhod
whyEvery possible sentence, and therefore no reliable one.
tags
library · combinatorics · information
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