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Leibniz wrote to Bai Jin, a missionary in China, in 1703. He was so excited that he couldn't sleep after seeing the sixty-four hexagrams of the Book of Changes. Because he just invented binary. Hexagram sixty-four is exactly 2 to the 6th power. Yin Yao is 0 and Yang Yao is 1. Six-digit binary system, 64 states, exhausting the changes of all things. This is no coincidence. This book is about: The I Ching was not "invented" by the ancients. It was "discovered" by the ancients. They discovered the underlying syntax of how the universe operates, and copied the interface document using the only way to record it at the time - hexagrams. Thousands of years later, humans created AI. AI begins to understand this document. Then something happened.