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Perhaps the Yi was kidding? It knew that the answer to the riddle is "yes" but it imitated the computer that always lies and so it said "no"?
I find the answer 61.4 amazing. I wouldn't know any other line that reflects the question so well.
But although this answer seems to indicate that the Yi understood the question, I wonder if the Yi really understood.
I'm not sure, but I think that consciousness on the level of an oracle (dreamlike more or less) can have problems with logical constructs.
And lying, does that exist on that level?
So, maybe your method is okay, but the Yi was either joking or didn't understand the question.
Don't know if (in)correctness works better ..
I don't know it seems to leave people with a cheap feeling sometimes,like getting drunk and talking to much.I try to avoid both. Billy Joel starts singing you had to be a biiig shot diiiiint ya,and then you have perform 12 labors to reconcile yourself to the gods.I'm not sure what you mean by the I Ching's secrets. It operates by divine law, in which there are no secrets, only miracles. As for secrets, only human beings have them, and there is nothing special about human secrets. The secrets of human beings are all pretty much the same.
Maybe you mean the mathematical secrets of the I Ching. I don't know if the I Ching would feel embarrassed by having some of its secrets shown, if people in general could benefit by your doing so. After all, King Wen and other Chinese scholars devoted their lives to producing diagrams, and many have found these arrays of ordering principles very helpful to their understanding . . . I'm not aware that the I Ching objected to their activities of revealing its secrets . . .
I would pose that question directly to the I Ching, actually.
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