Coincidance - Principia Discordia

COINCIDANCE 237
of the genetic code; permutating the 4 elements of active and passive yin and
yang, we get the 64 hexagrams of I Ching. Substituting Leibniz's 1 and 0—"that
upright one and that naughty besighed him in zeroine" as Joyce calls
them—we can use the same system to generate the 64 numbers from 0 to
63 in the binary notation that our computers use to 'think" (in about the
same sense that evolution or I Ching may be said to "think.")
Of course, binary lacks the dynamic (or evolutionary) element contained
in the moving lines ( or which give an I Ching hexagram two meanings.
This process element is present in Joyce, as we have seen, as the dynamic
functions, , which unifies and , and I which unifies and . In
genetics, the dynamic factor is a combination of mutation and natural
selection (Joyce's "hatch-as-hatch can"). The absence of these evolutionary
functions in binary may explain the fact that those computer scientists
working on AI (Artificial Intelligence) continually promise mountains and
deliver molehills. Perhaps they need to break out of a static binary into a
moving binary as dynamic as I Ching?
It is passing strange to note that Joyce's general functions also seem to be
isomorphic, in a sense, with quantum mechanics, and especially with the
Hidden Variable and hologram models. To present Joyce's "family tree" again: