Joachim Bouvet

theologian · 2 mentions across 1 reading

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Joachim Bouvet was a Jesuit missionary and scholar who served as a crucial intermediary between Leibniz and Chinese mathematical and philosophical traditions, particularly in transmitting knowledge of the I Ching. The readings invoke him to establish the genealogy of binary code through Leibniz's fascination with Chinese divination systems, suggesting that the symbolic logic underlying digital computation has deep roots in non-Western mystical and mathematical thought rather than emerging purely from Western rationalism. This connection is essential to the course's argument about how AI and computation inherit philosophical frameworks from unexpected historical sources.

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Notes on Thinking Machine Imaginaries_ Llull

Leibniz, and Lovelace to 'Shoggoth with a Smiley Face'

Leibniz’s interest in earlier mystico-logical systems extended beyond the kabbalah, including myriad alchemical emblems, Llull’s Ars, and perhaps most fruitfully (considering the current ubiquity of binary code, basis for digital computatio…The discovery consists of the following: Whereas the decimal system requires ten digital numbers from 0 to 9 as a base, a binary number requires two digital numbers, 0 and 1 only. The first ten numbers of the decimal system from 0 to 9 is w…

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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 2 Fu Xi 1 Ramon Llull 1 Yuen-Ting Lai 1 Fu Hsi 1 Jacob Leupold 1