Why life is impossible to understand in the materialistic model of existence.
There are two completely different, but coincident, ways of conceiving existence: 1. Cartesian Materialism. This is the obvious physical or objective view, in which physical objects-- those which we see as extended in spacetime-- are acted upon by extensive forces outside of them. Existence is objective and is treated by physical science. 2. Leibnizian Idealism. This is the view of existence as seen mentally from inside, as subjective (nonextended) ideas, not objective bodies in spacetime, acted upon inside by subjective forces, not by outside objective forces. Existence is subjective or mental. Leibniz's world of monads. According to Leibniz these two worlds are coincident and, in their own way, equivalent, but there is no provision in the objective model for intentional, intelligent acts since these are subjective acts. And life is impossible without such an autonomous control. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
