The noble Sior Bartolo attempts for В«the billionth time to use the subtle technique of Ramon LullвЂ™s Ars Magna as a divination toolВ».ДЄccording to P. A detailed description of the В«thinking machineВ» is given in Dionysios Romas novel В«Rebellion of the popolariВ» (4).

Frances Yates (3) in her Art of Memory incorporates LullвЂ™s famous Table, Ars Magna in the idea of В«moving memoryВ» or В«versatile memoryВ» and considers that assigning symbols вЂ“ letters to the attributes of God is very close to CiceroвЂ™s В«imagines agentesВ». a tautology? Can one proceed further that the statements В«Goodness is lastingВ» or В«duration is goodВ»? It is almost certain that Jonathan Swift is in fact describing LullвЂ™s device in GulliverвЂ™s travels in the detailed description of a machine that produces words in a random way. A detailed description of the structure and the function of the device can be found there, as well as the well known doubts raised by Louis Borges: Is it possible for the combinations and the permutations to generate something that is not a mere repetition of the meaning, i.e. Louis Borges (2) gives a description of the rotating wheels LullвЂ™s В«thinking machineВ» in an essay. References to his name can be found in the writings of renowned people.ДЄrthur Schopenhauer (1), in his World as Will and Representation describes vividly the vision of death that was the reason of his religious conversion to the Franciscan order. Nevertheless, he is not forgiving himself for an act of negligence committed once by himself. He is aware that his name is referred in eternity among those of great alchemists, philosophers and the pioneers of combinatorial science but, principally, among those that paved the way towards the dream of artificial intelligence. Ramon, Raimundo or Raymond, Raimundus or Raymundus Lull, Lully or Lullus or Lulio is forever melancholic in his present timeless existence.

The wheels of lull