Ramon Llull

Ramon Llull (1232–1316) was a Catalan philosopher, mystic, missionary, and logician whose work anticipated modern ideas of computation, artificial intelligence, and combinatorial logic. He wrote extensively in Catalan, Latin, and Arabic, making him one of the earliest major intellectual figures to use Catalan as a serious philosophical language - wikipedia

Llull is best known for the Ars Magna, a symbolic reasoning system based on rotating wheels that combined fundamental concepts to generate truths. His aim was not abstraction for its own sake but persuasion across cultures, particularly between Christians, Muslims, and Jews, through shared rational structures rather than force.

Unlike later Enlightenment thinkers, Llull refused to separate logic from ethics or love. For him, reason without compassion was incomplete, and knowledge carried moral responsibility. This makes him a key ancestor of Human Centred Design and Literate Transparency in the Hitchhiker tradition.

In a science fiction context, Llull appears as a proto-AI architect whose machines challenge modern synthetic intelligences by insisting that truth must include values, not just optimisation.

# Grave

His tomb is located inside the church, which became a site of pilgrimage and later a focal point for Llull’s veneration in Mallorca, even though he was never formally canonised.

In Hitchhiker terms: if you were planning an interview “at the grave,” **Plaça de Sant Francesc, Palma** is the place where the mystic logician most canonically still resides.

SEARCH Ramon Llull is buried in **Palma de Mallorca**, at the Franciscan convent and church of Sant Francesc (Sant Francesc de Palma). 39.5690728, 2.6524211 Sant Francesc, carrer de Can Malla, el Call, Canamunt, Palma de Mallorca, Palma, Balearic Islands, 07001, Spain