AHA, I can see from your avatar why you're so keen on Leibniz - you're almost his double!
:) On 16 November 2013 04:57, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 15 Nov 2013, at 16:30, Richard Ruquist wrote: > > Where's the math? > > > Good question. > > I comment Roger below: > > > > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Roger Clough <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The self as lens: Leibniz's lens-like model of perception and reality. >> >> Although I cannot find a direct reference in Leibniz's writings, they >> have not all been translated. Nevertheless Leibniz's model >> of perception is seemingly based on the high technology of the 17th >> century, >> Huygen's microscope. The indirect reference to the perceiver >> as based on the lens of a microscope, which can represent a >> field of view at a single point, as a unity,, as a perceiver or self must >> do >> Leibniz's conceptioon of reality was similar to this : >> >> "Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because >> of the interconnection of all things with one another. >> I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity. >> (*Gottfried Leibniz*, 1670) >> >> This single point in the perceiver and in reality itself >> is reflected in Leibniz's monad (which represents the many in the one), >> Plato's model of the One, >> > > OK, up to here. > > > the concepts of white and black holes >> and the twistor in Penrose's physics.. >> > > ? (That's a big jump which would need tuns of precisions, publications and > independent verifications), ... > ... and the math, as Richard asked. > > > > >> Leibniz's monadology itself can be used to derive >> the self as lens, since a person can be focused down >> to be represented by a monad, which >> cAn be understood as a point homunculus (the perceiver). >> > > Too much analogical for me. > > Bruno > > > > >> It is also well known that Leibniz referred to the myriad >> of microscopic organisms seen in a microscope as >> vderying his view of the world as the many in the one >> (the monad). >> >> >> >> 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. >> > > > -- > 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. > > > http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ > > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
