Coincidance - Principia Discordia

COINCIDANCE 165
mathematical mind that such a symbolism could be mechanically reproduced
and we would then have something akin to a "thinking machine." It is
amusing that those who think computers think (or will soon think)
generally consider themselves materialists, while those who claim I Ching
thinks call themselves mystics, but if thought is defined in these terms, then
both computers and 1 Ching must be considered to be thinking. (The fact that
the human nervous system operates on a similar binary code may account
for our occasional impression that humans also think, at least outside the
areas of politics and religion.)
The implied thesis of these notes is that Joyce, Leibniz and the authors of I
Ching all found this system independently and in different ways because it
does, in fact, exist on the level of the non-local "mind" or system ( )
underlying all individual minds or Egos ( }. This is the I AM or A Ham
which appears in Gaelic, Hebrew, Sanskrit and about 60 other languages
throughout the pages of FW: Plutarch's explanation of the E at Delphi,
There is one feature of I Ching which appears in Joyce but not in
binary—the moving lines ( and ) which transform active yang to
passive, active yin to passive, or vice versa. These are, of course, Joyce's
non-aristotelian functions as hidden unity behind and , and as
hidden unity behind and . I am happy to say that the Taoist
philosopher and Tai Chi master, Chiang Ling Al Huang, agreed with me
about this point when I presented these isomorphs at Esalen Institute in
March 1986.
It is amusing (or bemusing) to note that binary and I Ching are not only
isomorphic to FW but also, as Martin Schoenberger has noted, to the genetic
code. The full details are explained in Dr. Schoenberger's The I Ching and the
Genetic Code; for our purposes here it is enough to note the following:
The DNA is made up of two opposite spirals, positive and negative, which
can easily be considered isomorphic to I Ching's yin (—) and yang (—), or
Leibniz's 0 and 1, or Joyce's and These are bonded by four amino
acids—adenine, guaine, cytosine and thymine, which are usually abbreviated
A, G, C, T. If one dares to consider these isomorphic with active yang . ),
passive yang I, active yin ) and passive yin ( , or Leibniz's 01,11,10
and 00, or Joyce's and , then the parallel becomes staggering. In
forming RNA messages—the genetic code—the T (thymine) drops out to
be replaced by U (uracil) but we still have four elements—A, G, C, U—and if
we permutate them by the now-familiar rule, making all possible combinations
of three out of these basic four "letters," we get again 4 3 or 64 "words,"
which are the 64 elements of the genetic language.
But if the genetic language has two foursomes—the A,C,G,T that bond
the DNA. and the A, C, G, U that unwind from this and make the 64