Coincidance - Principia Discordia

164 COINCIDANCE
where the cosmology of Finnegans Wake is
The isomorphism of the two systems is the more remarkable because
there is nothing in Joyce's letters to indicate that he ever read, or even heard
of, the I Ching; but this only repeats the isomorphism, or synchronicity, in
which Leibniz also recreated I Ching in the form of his binary notation. As is
well known to mathematicians, Leibniz lived long enough to see the first
European translation of I Ching and to note the "coincidence" and be
astounded by it. It was this isomorphism, in fact, which led Leibniz to
postulate a kind of universal logical language below all forms of consciousness,
a concept like and yet unlike Jung's "collective unconscious."
The Chinese yang or is isomorphic to Leibniz's I and the yin or
isomorphic to his 0. Substituting the binary symbolism in King Wen's
Arrangement we get
The rule by which 1 Ching was generated out of King Wen's Arrangement
is: out of these four elements, make all possible combinations of 3 each. If
you will try this with King Wen's elements, you will get the 64 hexagrams of
I Ching, since 4 3 =64. If you try it with Leibniz's terms instead of King Wen's,
you get the first 64 numbers of the binary system (0 to 63), because, or
course, 4 3 still=64.
Joyce seems to have known something of Leibniz, since he refers to the
Leibniz's monad once, turning it into a confectionary "Prince Le Monade
(lemonade) who appears in a sugary fantasy involving girls in "sundae
dresses." More interestingly, on page 261, and become "that upright
one and that naughty besighed him zeroine," which has a Freudian meaning
(phallus and vagina) but also seems to refer directly to Leibniz's 1 and 0. The
Chinese yang and yin, of course, reconcile this double-meaning, since they
are both mathematical and sexual.
Leibniz predicted modern computers after the isomorphism between rti
binary numbers and I Ching became clear to him; it was obvious to his nfl e