... They contemplated the changes
in the dark and the light
and established the hexagrams
in accordance with them...

... By thinking through the order
of the outer world to the end,
and by exploring the law of their nature
to the deepest core,
they arrived at an understanding of fate.

- Shuo Kua. I Ching, Book of Changes.

In precise counterpoint to the Western mode of scientific thought, the Eastern mind produced the I Ching, or Book of Changes.

Like the genetic code is made up of 64 different "code-words" or combinations, The I Ching is made up of 64 different "hexagrams" or six-line structures. Each line is designated either a yin or yang.

"The ancient Chinese mind contemplates the cosmos in a way comparable to that of the modern physicist, who cannot deny that his model of the world is a decidedly psychophysical structure."
- Carl Jung, Forward to the I Ching, Wilhelm/Baynes edition, 1949

Also of note, through Jesuit priests in the 17th century, the German philosopher Leibnitz was able to confirm his system of binary mathematics, the basis of present-day computer science.