I meant Roger. He uses this picture. Of course I'm working on a theory that makes me a cat looking through a goldfish bowl. (I guess I can't keep it secret any longer!)
[image: Inline images 1] On 16 November 2013 23:37, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 15 Nov 2013, at 21:59, LizR wrote: > > AHA, I can see from your avatar why you're so keen on Leibniz - you're > almost his double! > > :) > > > > Are you talking to Roger or me? > Not sure which avatar you meant, nor which picture of Leibniz? > > Don't mind too much ... > > :) > > > > > 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.) 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