Hi Somebody on this list asked whether I thought the physical world to be real while the nonphysical isn't, but my email program seems to have eaten his email.
The answer is that it all depends on how you look at the world. Idealists believe that only ideas are real, while the material world is phenomenal. Not a delusion. Plato, Leibniz and Kant belonged to this faction. The reason given by Leibniz is that Ideal world is given by an infinite number of persistent although changing point ideas called monads. Monads can change, but cannot either be created or destroyed. But at the root of the physical world you have quantum uncertainty such as Heisenberg showed, which made Leibniz believe that only the monads are real. By real he meant persistent. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 9/24/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
