silicon: “Leibniz was the first to conceive an ‘electric language’, a set of symbols engineered for manipulation at the speed of thought. His De Arte Combinatoria (1666) outlines a language that became the historical foundation of contemporary symbolic logic. Leibniz’s general outlook on language would also become the ideological basis for computer-mediated telecommunications. A modern Platonist, Leibniz dreamt of the matrix.”Leibnizean symbolic logic was “developed later by Boole, Russell, and Whitehead, and then applied to electronic switching circuitry by Shannon.” “The temporal simultaneity, the all-at-once-ness of God’s knowledge serves as a model for human knowledge in the modern world as projected by the work of Leibniz. What better way, then, to emulate God’s knowledge than to generate a virtual world constituted by bits of information?”Michael Heim in Cyberspace………………………………………………………………………………………………….The Dissertatio de arte combinatoria was published by Gottfried Leibniz in 1666. It is a youthful work, written before the author had seriously undertaken the study of mathematics. Although it is a very original work and it provided the author the first glimpse of fame among the scholars of his time he often regretted its publication because he considered it premature.The main idea behind the text is that of an alphabet of human thought, which is attributed to Descartes. All concepts are nothing but combinations of a relatively small number of simple concepts, just as words are combinations of letters. All truths may be expressed as appropriate combinations of concepts, which can in turn be decomposed into simple ideas, rendering the analysis much easier. Therefore, this alphabet would provide a logic of invention, opposed to that of demonstration which was known so far. (wiki)………………………………………………………………………………………………….

silicon:

“Leibniz was the first to conceive an ‘electric language’, a set of symbols engineered for manipulation at the speed of thought. His De Arte Combinatoria (1666) outlines a language that became the historical foundation of contemporary symbolic logic. Leibniz’s general outlook on language would also become the ideological basis for computer-mediated telecommunications. A modern Platonist, Leibniz dreamt of the matrix.”

Leibnizean symbolic logic was “developed later by Boole, Russell, and Whitehead, and then applied to electronic switching circuitry by Shannon.”

“The temporal simultaneity, the all-at-once-ness of God’s knowledge serves as a model for human knowledge in the modern world as projected by the work of Leibniz. What better way, then, to emulate God’s knowledge than to generate a virtual world constituted by bits of information?”
Michael Heim in Cyberspace

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The Dissertatio de arte combinatoria was published by Gottfried Leibniz in 1666.

It is a youthful work, written before the author had seriously undertaken the study of mathematics. Although it is a very original work and it provided the author the first glimpse of fame among the scholars of his time he often regretted its publication because he considered it premature.

The main idea behind the text is that of an alphabet of human thought, which is attributed to Descartes.

All concepts are nothing but combinations of a relatively small number of simple concepts, just as words are combinations of letters. All truths may be expressed as appropriate combinations of concepts, which can in turn be decomposed into simple ideas, rendering the analysis much easier. Therefore, this alphabet would provide a logic of invention, opposed to that of demonstration which was known so far. (wiki)

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