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The 100 ChalkBoard Problem. By Joshua Lebeau

The Problem Imagine in your mind an endless empty room. Fill this room with as many ChalkBoards as you possibly can. Can you count them? At this point it should be fairly hard to count all of the chalkboards in your mind as there are an infinite amount of them. Now start with the first ChalkBoard, write anything you want on it, and continue to the next one writing something different. These can be drawings, numbers, letters anything. Pick a number at random, how easy is it for you to recall what is on that chalkboard? This is the 100 ChalkBoard problem. To simplify it, lets pretend instead of an infinite amount of chalkboards, you have only 100. And instead of random drawings, lets pretend you have the number 1 on the first chalkboard, and in order from left to right you start with 1 and work your way up to 100. Such that the first row contains 1,2,3..10 and the 2nd row contains 10,11,12...20 and the third row 30,31,32...40 until you get to 100. Now pick a chalkboard at random, how easy is it for you to recall what is on that chalkboard? To take it an even step further, imagine the first chalkboard contains a formula n + 1. How easy would it be to answer the question given a random chalkboard? Although this simply proves mathematical theory that given a formula you can solve something lets now change what's written on the ChalkBoard. Perhaps the first Chalkboard contains an Apple, the 2nd a Ball, the Third a Cat....the pattern here is ABC with words attached to them represented by Drawings of the words. The 100 Chalkboard problem is not so much about answering what is on the chalkboard, as much as it is about what pattern recognition our minds have into remembering what is written on each Chalkboard. What DataSet is needed in order to solve what is written on each Chalkboard. Now open your eyes, or ears or any of the 5 senses or any sense for that matter, that you have & take a moment, any moment at all and create a snap shot of it in your mind. If you were to place a chalkboard behind everything you can envision in your mind, could you recall at random which chalkboard has which part of the memory? Although you have seperated individual colors, sounds, smells, taste or touch or anything else you could sense, for the working theory in general it should be easier to recall what is on each ChalkBoard given a snapshot. Whereas in the previous problems it would appear you're relying on pattern recognition to recreate the ChalkBoard. As demonstrated in the first problem where multiple drawings that you created are hard to remember..unless of course you used a pattern. So the 100 ChalkBoard problem is both a Question and an Answer, Why are we able to recreate Patterns given a formula? And at the same time why is it so easy to remember everything involved in a single snapshot in time, even when spread across 100 chalkboards? What is happening in our mind when we apply what we see,hear,smell, taste or touch to each of these chalkbaords? And when you have a memory are you calculating the pattern recognition necessary to playback each part of the memory in order across the chalkboards? Such that your first memory would be the first frame of an endless movie that probably ends with the last drawing on chalkboard 100. You see how we've come full circle such that The original Drawings could represent a single memory you have, in that you play it back from start to finish in your mind. And it's not 1 sense at this point, it's actually all of them. That is the 100 ChalkBoard Problem.

The Short Version of the Problem with explanation.

Our memory and imagination is fairly complex, the 100 ChalkBoard problem addresses this issue of complexity by taking imagination and memory to both it's simplist form & it's complex version in exploring all aspects to what might very well be what we experience during a memory. It starts out by having you imagine an empty space with an infinite number of chalkboards and having you create anything you want on the chalkboards and then asking you to recall what you drew on each of them. The more chalkboards the harder it becomes to remember exactly what was drawn on each chalkboard. If however you follow a pattern it becomes fairly simple to recall what is on each chalkboard, but what's intriguing is if you experience a memory and recall what happened, it is fairly easy to put in order what happens on the first frame or chalkboard drawing of the memory and what happens on the last frame or chalkboard of the memory. So what happens when we have a memory, does it follow a pattern or are we capable of playing it back in order, and if we are, why is it so hard to remember what we just imagined or drew on each chalkboard? When taking into account Chess Masters who can play simultaneous games & remember what happened in each game all in there mind, perhaps there is something more happening in our memory/imagination than we currently understand. Either way that is the 100 ChalkBoard problem, one that addresses how our imagination & memory work.