Hi Stephen P. King A monad is blind, and so does not know the location in space of his physical body, so he must trust the PEH, which is his eyes and his guiding spirit, to lead him on safe paths. Psalm 23. In this Best of All Possible Worlds, there's no guarantees, but being blind, what else can he do but trust in his PEH guide ?
All he knows is what his guiding spirit tells him, which can be the whole universe, but L says somewhere that the monad has limited and distorted vision (he's perhaps only technically blind) and can only see what's "nearby". So the monad does not where he is, but he does know similar monads, wherever they be. And by "know" he can sense their feelings and even read their minds to some extent. So a given monad will find himself mentally and emotionally among the strangers that fate (the PEH) has decided to link him to. The problem of being a monad is that monads are always competing with one another, such that a more dominant one will beat down a weaker one. On the other hand, perhaps his guiding spirit will limit such actions. Etc. This is a my personal rendering of L's Theodicy, at least in part. [Roger Clough], [[email protected]] 1/17/2013 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." - Woody Allen ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-16, 17:45:42 Subject: Re: Math-> Computation-> Mind -> Geometry -> Space -> Matter On 1/16/2013 10:59 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 16 Jan 2013, at 13:13, Roger Clough wrote: > >> Hi Bruno Marchal >> >> Specific properties, at least down here, are needed >> if you accept Leibniz' dictum that identical entities cannot >> exist in this contingent world, for they would have the same identity. >> >> I'm inclined to say that that is also true in Platonia, >> which would be a disaster, for you could not say 1 = 1. >> A saving grace might be that one of those 1's is before, >> and the other, after the equal sign. That is, the numbers >> are distinguished by context. > > I agree with all what you say here. Tell this to Stephen. > Note that we are distinguished by context too. > > Bruno Hi, There is no context or figure-ground relation at the primitive level as such would be a distinction that makes no difference. To who or what would such matter? Even consciousness cannot be primitive, as it is distinct from non-consciousness.. Property neutrality is a necessary condition for ontological primitivity. The principle of Identity of Indiscernibles (of Leibniz) is exactly what I base my claim upon. In the absence of an agent to affect distinctions or to have a bias of a point of view, all properties vanish. Contingency is, at best, all that can be claimed, thus my proposal that existence is necessary possiblity. When we consider the nature of ontological primitives and understand that we are considering what must occur in the situation where there is no special or preternatural agent to distinguish a 1 from a 2, for example, then it follows that even the property of being a number becomes degenerate. -- Onward! Stephen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
