Thursday, March 17, 2016

Universal Commmunication and Binary Numbers

There is no reference in the Monadology to the role of Communication in the unification of Monads.  But, elsewhere, Leibniz conceives the possibility of a universal language that represents what he posits to be the underlying numerical structure of the universe. Subsequently, under the influence of the I Ching, he develops a binary numerical system.  Now, regardless of the truth of the Pythagorean premise, and he likely could not have foreseen all the details, his vision has been approximately actualized.  For, the basis of the most comprehensive communication medium to date, the Internet, is the binary numerical system, aka "code".

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