![]() The connection is invariably discovered in retrospect by some amateur numerologist with a book to sell. ![]() Despite numerous alleged connections, I can't think of a single instance in the entire history of human civilization where some "ancient wisdom" led to a scientific insight. As is this perpetual canard about "ancient wisdom" somehow prefiguring modern science. Do I Ching hexagrams include punctuation?Īnyway, I think such numerology is very silly. And the other three codons denote start and stop sequences - the equivalent of punctuation. Do some of the I Ching hexagrams mean the same thing? Because DNA "language" is highly redundant, with 61 codons specifying only 20 different amino acids. I know fuck-all about I Ching, but I suspect that the similarities don't go much deeper than that (without some very creative interpretation). No deep mystery here, just a very simple structural property. ĭNA codons are arrangements of three bases, and there are four different bases, making for 4 3 = 64 possible codons. ↪Noble Dust Hexagrams are arrangements of six Yin/Yang lines, making for 2 6 = 64 possible hexagrams. Incidentally, it's more that the Tao is heavily Ching-ist Lao Tzu draws heavily on the imagery of the I Ching in the Tao, and inevitably so as the Tao is, as it were, the missing piece of the I Ching, the stick that was laid aside. ![]() The West dismisses its own adage, "As above, so below." as mere superstition, but the self-sameness at different levels of fractals falls out of the mathematics of self- referential definition and reiteration (change). The close relation to DNA and to computers is not an accident or coincidence, but a necessary feature of all things algorithmic. So it is psychological in character, and describes the laws of thought, or information theory. The book itself is unchanging, but one reads a different section each time, and each section describes a way of things changing in terms relevant to humanity. One is interested, for the moment, in the changing aspect - the ephemeral. ![]() This represents the unchanging aspect of being, the ultimate unity of all. When one consults the I Ching with the yarrow stalks, the first thing one does is to lay one stalk aside. DNA language makes up for 64 possibilities, as do I Ching hexagrams. ![]()
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