The document describes a picture showing one goldfish in a bowl on the left and four goldfish in a bowl on the right. The lonely goldfish in the left bowl calculated how to maximize its chances of survival by leaping into the fuller bowl with other goldfish, despite the risk of death, in order to avoid being alone. After meticulous planning, the goldfish was ready to take the leap.

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Corbin McGhee
First Year Seminar, Dr. Harold Blanco
November 20, 2015
The Story of a Goldfish
It’s obvious what’s going on in the picture. The picture starts later than the beginning of
our story, but tells the whole thing nonetheless. One fish in the left bowl, four in the right bowl.
Everyone gets lonely, when they are alone. Is it hard to imagine that a fish would to? The
goldfish in the left bowl was obviously able to tell that there was more fun and also a better
survival rate inside of a bowl with more of his fellow species. It would be a dangerous adventure
but the lonely Goldfish knew that if he were to succeed he must take the risk of death. It may
some precarious of the fish to simply flip and flail out of the bowl in order to achieve its goal, but
those who do not look closely would not realize what was really going on. The isolated goldfish
had meticulously and precisely calculated every aspect and possible situation in algorithm and
probability in order to maximise efficiency of his leap of faith into the bowl with those of its own
race. The goldfish’s trial and error in hypothesis would not be in vain.
It came finally. The goldfish was ready and had finished his planning.