A prototype for De Arte Combinatoria

17th century philosophical languages with modern AI

What does the dissertation describe?

Combinations of ideas from a “characteristica universalis”

A device for combining ideas, a “calculus ratiocinator”

The calculus determines the meaning of an expression from the location of a set of combinations relative to “the center”

There are an increasing number of combinations to be made, in the series of 2, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 etc.

https://observablehq.com/@universalcharacter/universal-character-language-prototype?collection=@universalcharacter/portfolio

Latent spaces

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Why glyphs?

Glyphs represent concepts cross-linguistically

Why a characteristics universalis?

-Translate the languages of the world

-Integrate different disciplines of science

-Be an instrument of logical discovery��Runs on ontologies and the Semantic Web�

The future

Making mappings between domains

Interactions: spinning wheels to create multiple strings of information

Typing in a dedicated font