about onemonkey

> Why are you onemonkey?
Monkeys are our friends, monkeys are fun, monkeys monkey about, monkeys don't grow up, monkeys don't have jobs, monkeys are what we were. My pseudonym and domain derive from the well known theorem which states that given an infinite number of monkeys banging away on an equivalent number of typewriters eventually one of them would produce the works of Shakespeare. In and of itself not terribly interesting hypothesis, but I was inspired by someone's suggestion that the internet seemed to be a practical version of this experiment that was actually proving the opposite. (This is the point of the equation at the top of my page.) I am one of those monkeys banging away almost randomly on his keyboard. Them apes are more like us than most people realise or are willing to admit. I encourage you to read about the apes that were taught sign language, their story does a lot to undermine human egocentricity and misplaced arrogance about how special or unique we are within creation. I think the monkeys are more central to unravelling our own condition. Charlie Darwin was ahead of the game on this one..

"Origin of man now proved. Metaphysics must flourish. He who understand baboon would do more toward metaphysics than Locke. Plato says that our 'imaginary ideas' arise from the pre-existence of the soul, are not derivable from experience read monkeys for pre-existence. " - Charles Robert Darwin, Notebooks

Another monkey story (reported by my mother, I do not remember it.)...

When I was born, I was my mother's first child (of three) and she was well pleased with her achievement (as indeed am I.) Sitting up in her hospital bed, she delighted in scandalising the nurses, by asking them to bring her 'her monkey.'
- 'Mrs. Addyman, you can't say that! He's your little baby!'
- 'Yes, but he looks like a monkey!'
- 'He's a beautiful baby.'
- 'A beautiful monkey! Give me my monkey!'

Caspar Addyman 01 April 2001