Hi Stephen P. King
1) The pre-established harmony is beyond the laws of physics.
For nothing is perfect in this contingent world. The preestablished
harmony was designed before the beginning of gthe world,
and since God is good, presumably gthe pre-established
harmony is the best possible one in a contingent world.
One indication is the sheer improbability of the structure of the
physical universe so that life is possible.
I liken it to a divine musical composition with God as the
conductor, and various objects playing parts in harmony.
2) The monads have no windows, so they are all blind.
The perceptions are images are provided by God, or the Supreme monad,
the only one able to see all and know all. Each monad
is provided with a continually updated view of the perceptions\
all all of the mother monad perceptions, so it k nows everything
in the universe from its own point of view.
3) I have been criticized for calling the monadic structure as tree-like,
and I could be wrong. But as I understand them, the monads
can be described by category theory if that's the right word,
since each substance can be desribed by its predicates and
presumably the predicates have predicates and
so on.
Since all of the monads necessarily are within the supreme
monad, it would be the root of the tree. Of course a tree
with an infinite number of branches and subbranches, etc.
Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net
9/3/2012
Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him
so that everything could function."
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From: Stephen P. King
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Time: 2012-09-02, 10:32:01
Subject: Re: Toward emulating life with a monadic computer
Dear Roger,
I am most interested in a detailed discussion of the
1) "preestablished harmony"
2) reflections or images
3) Tree-like structure
4) whatever might be "exterior" to a monad.
On 9/2/2012 2:19 AM, Roger Clough wrote:
Toward emulating life with a monadic computer
In a previous discussion we showed that the natural numbers qualify as
Leibnizian monads, suggesting the possibility that other mathematical
forms might similarly be treated as monadic structures.
At the same time, Leibniz's monadology describes a computational
architecture that is capable of emulating not only the dynamic physical
universe, but a biological universe as well.
In either case, the entire universe might be envisioned as a gigantic
digital golem, a living figure whose body consists of a categorical
nonliving substructure and whose mind/brain is the what Leibniz called the
"supreme
monad". The supreme monad might be thought of as a monarch,
since it governs the operation of its passive monadic substructures
according to a "preestablished harmony." In addition, each monad in the system
would possess typical monadic substructures, and possibly further monadic
substructures wuithin this, depending spending on the level of complexity
desired.
Without going into much detail at this point, Leibniz's monadology might be
considered
as the operating system of such a computer, with the central processing chip
as its supreme monad. This CPU continually updates all of the monads
in the system according the following scheme. Only the CPU is active,
while all of the sub-structure monads (I think in a logical, tree-like
structure) are passive.
Each monad contains a dynamically changing image (a "reflection") of all of the
other monads, taken from its particular point of view. These are called its
perceptions,
which might be thought of as records of the state of any given monad at any
given time. This state comprising an image of the entire universe of monads,
constantly being updated by the Supreme monad or CPU. In addition to
the perceptions, each monad also has a constantly changing set of appetites.
And all of these are coorddinated to fit a pre-established harmony.
It might be that the pre-established harmony is simply what is happening
in the world outside the computer.
Other details of this computer should be forthcoming.
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Onward!
Stephen
http://webpages.charter.net/stephenk1/Outlaw/Outlaw.html
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