Amazing work on this. It really strikes me to see a snapshot of the genealogy of the "technological utopian" viewpoint often seen today. People have believed

Amazing work on this. It really strikes me to see a snapshot of the genealogy of the "technological utopian" viewpoint often seen today. People have believed that computational reasoning could delivery universal truth for quite some time now! Also I find it particularly interesting to note the mythical / religious conviction of these thinkers. Not sure if Leibniz could have forseen the ethical / moral divergence of internet culture today, but I'm sure he would have been fascinated & repulsed by the diatribes of comment sections...