baumhaus.digital/Studium Generale/Short History of the Learning Machine/Alles ist Zahl!/From Numbers to Logic
George Boole (1854) notices that 0 and 1 can represent more than quantity — they can represent truth: false and true.
Boolean algebra — AND, OR, NOT — becomes the logical skeleton underneath every circuit in every digital machine.
The same two symbols now carry both arithmetic and logic. That overlap is why a computer can calculate and also decide.
