“We are trying to get better. We seek out those types of experiences that we call the positive, the good, the light, the living, and we wish to avoid the negative, the evil, the dark, and the dead. Unfortunately, we are equipped with a nervous system in which the neurons either fire or don’t fire. Everything we are aware of is created out of an extremely complicated arrangement of yes and no. We can put colored television on tape so that it is all reduced to a matter of yes and no. And that, you will understand, is the philosophy of the Chinese Book of Changes, the I Ching, which represents all the situations of life in terms of combinations of yang, or the positive principle, and yin, the negative. Interestingly enough, the Latin translation of the I Ching was read by the philosopher Leibniz, and from this he invented binary arithmetic, in which all numbers can be represented by zero and one, which is the number system used by the digital computer that lies behind all our electronic ingenuity. Our great extension of the nervous system is based on the same principle.
Can you see, then, what we are trying to do when we seek the positive and avoid the negative? We are trying to have yang without yin. We are trying to arrange a life game in which there is winning without losing. How can you arrange such a state of affairs?” – http://tinyurl.com/2uajsbt
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