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by IncreasePosts 826 days ago
Evolution wasn't evolving towards the specific point we are at now. It was just doing its own thing all the time, with no plans for the future.

So, a better (but still not great) question, would be, if a monkey bangs on keys forever would they ever produce any kind of story at all?

But, that's still not good enough, because evolution is iterative, and would pick out very short stories that worked a bit, and that page kept getting duplicated out to new monkeys who would start typing from the end of that story