On 06 May 2013, at 15:09, Roger Clough wrote:
Can concepts alone such as numbers be monads ?
Can concepts alone-- mental concepts (such as numbers) that do not
refer to corporeal bodies -- be monads ?
Monads are complete concepts unextended in space, that correspond to
material bodies extended in space. So monads
must be one end of a dipole having a concept at one end and a
material body at the other.
Then can numbers be monads ? No, because they have to physical form.
How about truth or reason? No, for the same reason.
What about perception, or self or consciousness or soul? Yes, these
are
monads because they also have a material being at the other end of a
dipole.
What about God or some other supreme being ? God is the only "monad "
possible without a material correspondence. God is pure spirit with
no dependence
on the material world. He is the seer and doer of everything, but is
beyond the world.
One might think of God as the seer and doer of everything who sees
the world and
acts on it through the supreme monad.
So man cannot be God-like.
Like number cannot be arithmetical-truth-like.
But number, relatively to other numbers, can be arithmetical-proof-
like, and so, from their perspectives, can get closer to truth, if
they feel the aspiration, and do some amount of work.
Bruno
Dr. Roger Clough NIST (ret.) 5/6/2013
http://team.academia.edu/RogerClough
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