Every-thing.net

Soumis par NT2 le mer, 10/24/2007 - 16:16

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À partir de formules mathématiques complexes préétablies, ce site dit calculer les probabilités de tout: pensées, personnes, sociétés, objets, histoires. Par exemple, pour déterminer le nombre de pensées possibles, l'artiste utilise des données sur le nombre de neurones d'un cerveau normal, le nombre moyen de pensées par heure en état d'éveil et pendant le sommeil, etc. Pour déterminer le nombre d'"histoires" possibles, il calcule plutôt le nombre de transformations possibles de la structure moléculaire de l'univers sur une période de 13 500 000 ans, à partir du calcul déjà effectué pour déterminer le nombre d'objets possibles selon le nombre d'atomes contenus dans l'univers.

Anciennement hébergé au http://www.every-thing.net/, le site n'est aujourd'hui plus en ligne. Toutefois, plusieurs versions du site demeurent accessibles sur Internet Archive.

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Using the current scientific perspective that all matter is comprised of atoms in various arrangements or forms, every-thing.net determines every possible form of thought, world population, human society, structure of the universe and history. every-thing.net presents a unified perspective of everything by determining the number of possibilities. Every thought is determined by calculating the number of different possible thoughts within the human brain. Every person is determined by combining the world's supply of ova with the world's supply of sperm, and every possible society--from smallest to largest—is calculated using all combinations of the world’s population. By determining the number of atoms containable in the universe, the number of different possible objects is determined by calculating all permutations of the molecular structure of the universe. Every history is determined by calculating the number of different transformations of the universe's molecular structure which could occur over its 13.5 billion year history. Because every-thing.net determines everything, it contains every image, every film, every video tape, every interactive installation, every website, every music composition, every sound, every birth, every death, every war and every peacetime. THE MYTHOLOGY OF EVERYTHING every-thing.net can be viewed as a mythology, one which uses the great mythological characters of our time: numeric calculations. Like a mythology, every-thing.net appears to have a particular meaning or function from a literal perspective, but this meaning changes from an allegorical perspective. If the function of a myth is to provoke a new perspective--or truth--of a particular circumstance, every-thing.net appears to provide the perspective that all thought and matter can be determined by calculating all permutations of neurons, sperm, ova, atoms and moments of time. The numeric perspective used in every-thing.net is the literal perspective because the calculations within every-thing.net produce numbers which are beyond human conception. Although it may be possible for a human mind to conceive of 1 object, or 10 or 100, it is difficult--if not impossible-- for a mind to conceive large collections of objects, such as 1,000,000, or 1,000,000,000 or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Although a numeric perspective and various methods of calculation have repeatedly demonstrated validity in many aspects of contemporary life, can numbers and calculations accurately portray the potential of all thought and physical matter? Within the mythology of every-thing.net, the heroes are mathematical calculations, and the actions of these heroes are pages of scrolling numbers. The facts, statistics and calculations within every-thing.net act as a facade for potential thought and physical matter, a potential which may not necessarily be calculable or even conceivable using our contemporary perception of everything. (...)

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