Hi Stephen P. King
The monads are not completely disconnected:
1) They are connected nonlocally and instantly through the
Supreme Monad, since they commune with the SM
and thus with each other as well. The communion of the saints
as it says in one of the creeds. So there is some limited,
distorted telepathy and imperfect mental and emotional
intermingling of feelings and ideas possible, depending on
an individual's sensitiveness and clarity
of vision. The SM sees all with perfect vision.
2) Each monad contains the instantly updated information in all of the
other monads in the universe-- but from his own perspective.
3) Leibniz says that the monads, through their appetities and
perceptions, are "laden with the past and pregnant with the future."
Memory and some foresight or sense of the future.
Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net
11/9/2012
"Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen
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Time: 2012-11-08, 07:54:18
Subject: Re: Leibniz: Reality as Dust
On 11/8/2012 6:19 AM, Roger Clough wrote:
Hi Stephen P. King
Time and space don't exist as substances so
they don't influence the monads, which as you say
are eternal. Further, there is no "substance space".
So the monads are not organized in any way.
The monads can be thought of as a collection
of an infinite number of mathematical points.
>From dust we come and to dust we shall return.
Hi Roger,
The absolute disconnection of the monads is what makes them a 'dust'. This
is exactly what is a Stone space - the dual to a Boolean algebra. ;-) The idea
is that any one monad has as its image of other monads the vision of a
mathematical point. This fits the idea of that the classical universe is "atoms
in a void" as taught by Democritus.
http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec1.html
What Craig and I are proposing is to add time to this idea. The evolution
of the dust from one configuration to another is the arrow of time. Switching
to the dual, we see teh evolution of Boolean algebras, whose arrow is the
entailment of one state by all previous states. These two arrows face in
opposite directions
... A => A' Stone space
| |
....A*<=A*' Boolean algebra
The duals aspects of each monad evolve in opposite directions.
Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net
11/8/2012
"Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen
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Time: 2012-11-07, 19:01:19
Subject: Re: Communicability
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, rclo...@verizon.net
11/7/2012
"Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen
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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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