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Based on what former explained, it can see that MIURA BAIEN broke away from Sinocentrism and established his world view by knowing the world view of ancient Greece.

And I think that appear to be a precise grasp of the Lifeworld, as Edmund Husserl had claimed.

BAIEN's view of the world was a picture of the world system before the mathematically idealized modern natural sciences covered it. And his idea of GENGO is characterized that has the Holon- structure which has both character a part and a whole, what has been missing from Western thought, since ancient Greece.

In that sense, it is close to the Umwelt proposed by Jakob von Uexkull, but the idea of BAIEN is building an environmental world beyond biology.

Because in his world system, time, space, the arrangement of planets in the center of the sun, the method of planets in the center of the earth, light, and darkness, animals and plants, organisms and inanimate objects are understood as a pair of Holons that make up the world.

Here, BAIEN's Holon system is difference from Koestler's. Because BAIEN always thought all Holon makes 'one pair'. And a pair of 'one pair' creates new Holon by tautology which is drawn in his basic map at under left.

Therefore, this system iterates endless and that is in both the integration and deployment directions. Because Holon is a part and a whole. And, as we shall see, the only logic applied to the Baien's Holon system is Stroke function.

The integration and divide repeat indefinitely. Because Holon is a part and a whole. And, as we shall see, the only logic applied to the BAIEN Holon system is Stroke function.

All of those make a real Lifeworld in the Universe. There is the grand idea of Zhuang Zhou that all beings have equal value. Like Zhuang Zhou, BAIEN gives a bird's-eye view of the whole world. However, it is much more systematic and has a modern style compared to Zhuang Zhou.

BAIEN's idea also appear to be closely related to the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. The book is quite different from the philosopher's work we have been comparing. It called "Wittgenstein's picture theory of language". He writes, "proposals make pictures of the world". The summary is as follows. (from Wikipedia)


Propositions 2 and 3

The further thesis of 2. and 3. and their subsidiary propositions is Wittgenstein's picture theory of language. This can be summed up as follows:

・The world consists of a totality of interconnected atomic facts, and propositions make "pictures" of the world.

・In order for a picture to represent a certain fact it must in some way possess the same logical structure as the fact. The picture is a standard of reality. In this way, linguistic expression can be seen as a form of geometric projection, where language is the changing form of projection but the logical structure of the expression is the unchanging geometric relationship.

・We cannot say with language what is common in the structures, rather it must be shown, because any language we use will also rely on this relationship, and so we cannot step out of our language with language.



Even more surprising is that the following diagram, which shows the basis of BAIEN thinking, has the same functional symbol as Sheffer stroke. In the figure, stroke divides all "一" in a small circle into the pairs. That is an essential figure. And he also shows a Stroke function in a couple of pictures, using the seam and the front and back sides of the paper. In the left figure, the three "一"s, which make like a triangle has the same function as the simplest logical formula t | ( t | t ).

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   The triangle is the smallest unit of Gengo structure.

"BAIEN Complete Works" was published in 1912. I do not know this collection donated to which university library. I don't know if Scheffer saw the GENGO diagrams before he published his paper on Stroke function in 1913. You might be able to find out if you search at the library of the university where he was enrolled.

If Sheffer didn't see the GENGO diagram, then BAIEN was the first person who discovered Stroke function, thereby drawing logical pictures of the world. BAIEN's attempt is almost successful. He brought many maps of the world in his figures and sentences.

Programmers already know that Stroke functions are compatible with NAND circuits. And that NAND circuits replace all circuits. If this hypothesis is correct, we will be able to draw a logical model of the biosphere and universe by using the supercomputer. I'm sure that we can if we want.

And if my hypothesis is correct, why did BAIEN could do the work? I think it is because the characters used by BAIEN were Chinese letters(kanji), which itself is a picture. The GENGO figures could interpret as an extended kanji. Wittgenstein conceived about that, but he could not draw the picture of the world to realize that like GENGO. I think that it's because the letters he used were alphabets.

However, computer programming cannot be done in Chinese letters. But today, the integration of the East and the West within the computer is possible, and I feel that humankind has already reached the historical point in time that we can do.


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