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The Library of Babel is a story by Jorge Luis Borges about a library holding infinite knowledge within books. It's made up of hexagonal galleries and in them are 5 shelves holding 32 books. Each book has 410 pages and what's written in them are combinations of 25 orthographic symbols. None are identical. The library is all-knowing and perfect. It contains the past, present, and future.

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The philosophical aspect of the Library of Babel

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The philosophical aspect of the Library of Babel

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The stunning accomplishment that the Library of Babel is something hard to wrap our mind around, yet is so simple. Everything we have ever said and everything we ever will say for all of us, was already written in the library. Every answer to every question we will ever ask is just pages away. The entire life story of somebodies life or Lord of the Rings Trilogy can be found. Jorge Borges, the creator of the library of Babel, views this as a work of art, I feel that it should not be seen much more than that other than a philosophical conversation. Even though the library has everything we need to know, the problem of where it is and how it can be connected with our questions will never be solved. This lack of tracing is the reason why the Library of Babel is still seen as blob of scrambled letters that created words. So, unless you know where to find your answers that library is useless. However, it is still viewed as a theoretical accomplishment and something that should be studied and reflected on especially in a philosophical sense.

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Jorge Luis Borges’ Library of Babel is not a theoretical place with countless rooms, books, words, and letters. The library of Babel is very real and with the help of math and technology, the library has been published online for the public. This complex series of hexagonal rooms contain, hundreds of shelves with books that detail every word, sentence, phrase, story, etc. ever said, written, thought of, or created. This doesn’t just mean for the past. Even for things that have not been said yet are contained in this library. As mind-blowing as it is, the Library of Babel is a relatively simple idea. By scrambling every letter with other letters, you are bound to create a word. If you do this enough times you start to create sentences which after a while become pages. The infinite monkey theory states that if a monkey punching letters on a typewriter for an infinite amount of time will create a full Shakespeare sonnet. This exact theory works directly with the Library of Babel except there is no monkey, just a computer scrambling letters into anything ever said from the past or future. The date of our death with the exact reason, date, and time with every detail is somewhere in the magnitude of shelves. Every answer to any question that will ever be asked is there too. The effects of the Library of Babel is something that should be studied and taught more as it is such an intriguing and astonishing achievement.

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(getting back to this)

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“The Universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.“
The Library of Babel is a metaphor for the universe and it literally is the universe of the story. The library of babel is a more tangible version of our universe. It contains everything that ever was and is. It’s also infinite just like our universe.
Humans dedicate themselves to exploring both. They are the key to gaining more knowledge and understanding of the world we live in. Both are also thought to be gateways to the divine or have been created by the divine. In the story, people have gone mad or have passed away in search of answers in the Library of Babel.
Both Universes also have building blocks of some sort. In the Library of Babel, there is an alphabet, 25 orthographic symbols to be precise, and every book in there is a combination of them. In our universe, we also have building blocks like atoms and cells.

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https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/07/23/the-library-of-babel-as-seen-from-within/

In this blog, Jonathon looks at the library of Babel from within and he talks about how the library is finite, but the knowledge in it is infinite. He states that "The result is not that language loses all meaning but that it constantly gains more, as even the unprecedented combinations of its atoms, the letters, wait patiently for the discovery or invention of the language in which they will be the names of new gods." He believes that the invention is already there, but its not released until it gets figured out.

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The Library of Babel as Seen from Within

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Reproducing Borges’s imaginary library online. Since I first read it in a high school Spanish class, I’ve been fascinated by the theory of language implicit in Borges’s “The Library of Babel.” The story describes a universal library containing, in 410-page volumes, every possible permutation of twen…

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The author describes the Library of Babel to look similar to something like this.

"From any hexagon one can see the floors above and below-one after  another, endlessly. Twenty bookshelves, five to each side, line four of the hexagon's six sides; the height of the bookshelves, floor to ceiling.There passes a spiral staircase, which  winds upward and downward into the  remotest distance."

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Religion

Starting with the title, "The Library of Babel" is filled with religious allusions and allegories. The Old Testament's first book, Genesis, contains the tale of the tower of Babel, to which the story's title references. The story describes a time when everyone could speak since they all spoke the same language, and they used this capacity to cooperate to build a structure that would reach the heavens. God dispersed the population and made them speak many languages because He believed that humans had overstepped their bounds. Although there are linguistic similarities between the two tales, Borges' tale does not specifically depict God interfering with human affairs.

Language

There are books in the library that are written in every language that exists, according to the book "The Library of Babel," and the author concludes that many or even all of the books might be read in other languages and have varied meanings as long as the languages share the same alphabet. In an odd passage of the story, the narrator asks the audience outright if they believe they understand what the author is writing because it may be one of those books with several interpretations.

Order

The concept of order is established in "The Library of Babel" as both a contrast and a complement to the concept of randomness. By the end of the tale, the narrator appears to have discovered the source of the Library's difficulty with its infinite size: each librarian in the Library struggles to accept that there is higher order because of what has led them to believe that the Library is random, nonsensical, and unorganized. The author is emotionally exhausted by the endeavor to find meaning and order in the lower-level disorder, yet being able to accept rationally that there is order to the Library on a higher scale.

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Narrator

The narrator's name and precise identity is a secret. The narrator provides certain details about his life with the reader. At the time of writing, he is an elderly man, but when he was younger, he looked through the catalog of catalogs. Like the other residents of the Library, he lives alone and has no close friends.

Editor

An editor is supposed to exist in the short story's world even if this character isn't mentioned in the text itself. On the first, sixth, and seventh pages of the story, the editor has written notes for the reader. Borges utilized the device of a fictional editor in other short stories to provide additional detail and discussion on a theme.

Purifiers

Despite this abundance of knowledge, every book is completely useless to the reader, driving librarians to suicidal despair. Because of this, some librarians engage in superstitious and cult-like practices, such as the "Purifiers," who indiscriminately burn books they believe to be nonsense while searching the library for the "Crimson Hexagon".

The book man

The book man is a person who the narrator and other librarians believed might exist The book that served as the cipher or catalog for all the other volumes would have been examined by this librarian.