Hi Stephen P. King
Mereology is part and parcel of Leibniz's system, to use a limp pun.
1) Although unproven, but because God is good while the world is contingent
(imperfect, misfitting),
Leibniz, like Augustine and Paul, believed that things as a whole work for
good, but unfortunately not all parts
have to be equally good. This is essentially his theodicy.
2). Everything is nonlocal: The monads are arranged like a tree structure
leading up to
the Supreme Monad, above which is God, causing all things to happen
and perceiving all things.
Now Man, being near the top of the Great Chain of Being, and the
"perceptions" of each monad are being constantly and instantly
updated to reflect the perceptions all of the other monads in the universe,
So, to the degree of their logical distance from one another,
their intelligence, and clarity of vision, each monad is
omniscient. Personally I use the analogy of the holograph,
each part contining the whole, but wqith limited resolution.
Roger , rclo...@verizon.net
8/20/2012
Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so everything
could function."
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From: Stephen P. King
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Time: 2012-08-18, 17:34:30
Subject: Re: Monads as computing elements
Dear Roger,
From what I have studied of Leibniz' Monadology and commentary by many
authors, it seems to me that all appearances of interactions is given purely in
terms of synchronizations of the internal action of the monads. This
synchronization or co-ordination seems very similar to Bruno's Bp&p idea but
for an apriori given plurality of Monads. I identify the computational aspect
of the Monad with a unitary evolution transformation (in a linear algebra on
topological spaces).
I have been investigating whether or not it might be possible to define the
mereology of monads in terms of the way that QM systems become and unbecome
entangled with each other. Have you seen any similar references to this latter
idea?
On 8/18/2012 11:58 AM, Roger wrote:
Hi Stephen P. King
In the end, as Leibniz puts it, you couldn't tell the difference, they would
"seem" to have windows, but actually, since substances,
being logical entities, cannot actually interact,
they all must communicate instead through the supreme monad,
(the CPU) which presumably reads and writes on them.
I think they are like subprograms, with storage files,
which can't do anything by themselves, but must be
operated on by the CPU according to their
current perceptions (stored state data) which
reflect all of the other stored state date in
the universe of monads.
Roger , rclo...@verizon.net
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Onward!
Stephen
"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."
~ Francis Bacon
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