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Comparison of code to algorithms found in Richard Cook's analysis of King Wen sequence
Hi - I am wondering if you ever reviewed the algorithms in Richard Cook's work that claims to prove the derivation the King Wen sequence -- "Classical Chinese Combinatorics: Derivation of the Book of Changes Hexagram Sequence". I recently found a review of his book (https://www.biroco.com/yijing/cook.htm) that elucidates the mathematics that was inscrutable to me when I read it many years ago.
I was wondering whether the algorithms here relate to his at all. Thank you.
The operations Terence McKenna performed on the I Ching King Wen sequence are not related to Richard Cook. Richard Cook attempts to reconstruct the King Wen sequence (using questionable methods) while Terence McKenna performed the following:
/// The primary unit in the I Ching is the line.
/// A full sequence of sixty-four hexagrams contains 384 lines,
/// which traditionally has been divided into two subunits of three lines each.
/// Such subunits are called trigrams, and two trigrams form one hexagram.
/// Following the same principles of construction, we have arranged six simple waves
/// in sequential order. These are analogous to the six lines of a hexagram.
/// Over these we have superimposed, in sequential order, two more waves, each three
/// times the size of the six small waves. These two larger waves are
/// equivalent to the two trigrams in any hexagram. Superimposed over the sequence of six and two
/// is a final simple wave, standing for the entire hexagram, a single wave six times larger than the six waves on the primary level and twice
/// as large as the two waves on the intermediate level. This is analogous to a hexagram.
/// When this modular hierarchy is extended to further levels, this complex wave preserves the relation
/// of a single hexagram to the entire I Ching sequence, becoming part of a still
/// larger hierarchy of which it is only 1/64 of the whole.
/// Each tri-leveled module exists as 1/64 of a still larger module.
/// Such a complex wave has at its primary level 384 parts in sixty-four primary subunits,
/// just as the complete I Ching sequence of sixty-four hexagrams has 384 lines.
My guess is that Terence McKenna took this from the book Gödel, Echer, Bach, specifically Isomorphism.
This is a completely arbitrary arrangement and doesn't mean anything, but since the I Ching can represent literally anything he made it represent some Timewave. Which the theory itself is alright but a software representation of this is far fetched.
I was looking into representing this wave as light of an interference pattern for a hologram but some random arrangement won't get you anything visually, just noise (note I haven't tested this).
