On 11/7/2012 11:48 AM, Roger Clough wrote:
Hi Stephen P. King
That sounds like Leibniz. Each monad contains the
views of all of the other monads in order to see
the whole, not from just one perspective.
Hi Roger,
Yes, and that is why I like the idea of a Monad. I just don't agree
with Leibniz' theory of how they are organized. Leibniz demanded that
their organization is imposed ab initio, he assumed that there is a
special beginning of time. I see the monads as eternal, never created
nor destroyed, and their mutual relationships are merely the
co-occurence of their perspectives. This makes God's creativity to be an
eternal action and not a special one time action.
Roger Clough, [email protected]
11/7/2012
"Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen
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From: Stephen P. King
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Time: 2012-11-06, 18:17:30
Subject: Re: Communicability
On 11/6/2012 11:11 AM, Roger Clough wrote:
What happens if I mistake a statue of a beautiful woman
for the real thing, thus turning, eg, a statue of pygmalion into an
actual woman ?
Or mistake fool's gold or gold foiled chocolates
for actual gold coins ?
Does the world actually become cloudy if I have cataracts ?
It is not just about you. It is about the huge number of observers. What
matters is that they can communicate with each other and mutually
confirm what is "real". Why do you imagine that only humans can be
observers?
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Onward!
Stephen
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