Re: Re: Leibniz, Idealism and Parapsychology
Hi spudboy100 Being (mind, life,consciousness, first person singular) isn't part of the spacetime universe. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough - Receiving the following content - From: spudboy100 Receiver: rclough,everything-list Time: 2013-09-14, 14:34:11 Subject: Re: Leibniz, Idealism and Parapsychology Well, its just an idea that fascinates me. Reading Gerhard t'Hooft in the 1990's sort of set it all in motion. Also Raphael Bousso, in their analysis oh the universe as hologram, etc. Are we the chuck of matter, or the reflection in the mirror? That kind of thing. -Original Message- From: Roger Clough To: spudboy100 ; everything-list Sent: Sat, Sep 14, 2013 12:09 pm Subject: Re: Re: Leibniz, Idealism and Parapsychology Hi spudboy100 Sure. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough - Receiving the following content - From: spudboy100 Receiver: everything-list,rclough Time: 2013-09-14, 10:01:02 Subject: Re: Leibniz, Idealism and Parapsychology One idea I have been kicking around, is viewing through physics, that yes mind is bran, brain is mind, but not totally. More, precisely, the notion that the data, the pattern identity, the mind, the soul, personality, memory (whatever we wish to call it) is analogous to a computer network, where data and information, all information, gets written to some sort of media, a long, ways, off. Think of this as a read-write function of a storage area network. All server farms have remote sites to preserve data, for disaster recovery. All large companies have this, and so do governments as well. I am guessing that this is a feature of the cosmos-or really, just, hoping that it is so. Mitch -Original Message- From: Roger Clough To: - Roger Clough Sent: Sat, Sep 14, 2013 8:47 am Subject: Leibniz, Idealism and Parapsychology Leibniz, Idealism and Parapsychology Since it is often based on laboratory experiments, parapsychology has a scientific basis. But these results are smeared by proponents of the cult of materialism, which cannot accept the view that there is such a thing as a mind (a Self). That alone makes materialism a joke. Materialism originated with the Enlightenment primarily as a reaction against religion, replacing it with reason, as well as a misinterpretation or reinterpretation of Descartes, by claiming that mind can interact with the body, which Descartes maintained were two different substances, by instead claiming that both mind and body are matter. That mind is matter is nonsensical. Leibniz took the other tack, that of Idealism, in which both brain and mind were Mind, which has the philosophical support of Kant and Plato. But the metaphysics of Leibniz are difficult especially in the face of the bad and completely non-Cartesian philosophy materialisam because materialism, while it doesn't work for mind, DOES work very well for Newtonian mechanics. Hence conventional science these days is swolidly materialistic and Leibniz's platonism is liost to history. I will be posting more on this, but to begin with you might want to visit my Leibniz site, http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Leibniz, Idealism and Parapsychology
Leibniz, Idealism and Parapsychology Since it is often based on laboratory experiments, parapsychology has a scientific basis. But these results are smeared by proponents of the cult of materialism, which cannot accept the view that there is such a thing as a mind (a Self). That alone makes materialism a joke. Materialism originated with the Enlightenment primarily as a reaction against religion, replacing it with reason, as well as a misinterpretation or reinterpretation of Descartes, by claiming that mind can interact with the body, which Descartes maintained were two different substances, by instead claiming that both mind and body are matter. That mind is matter is nonsensical. Leibniz took the other tack, that of Idealism, in which both brain and mind were Mind, which has the philosophical support of Kant and Plato. But the metaphysics of Leibniz are difficult especially in the face of the bad and completely non-Cartesian philosophy materialisam because materialism, while it doesn't work for mind, DOES work very well for Newtonian mechanics. Hence conventional science these days is swolidly materialistic and Leibniz's platonism is liost to history. I will be posting more on this, but to begin with you might want to visit my Leibniz site, http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Leibniz, Idealism and Parapsychology
One idea I have been kicking around, is viewing through physics, that yes mind is bran, brain is mind, but not totally. More, precisely, the notion that the data, the pattern identity, the mind, the soul, personality, memory (whatever we wish to call it) is analogous to a computer network, where data and information, all information, gets written to some sort of media, a long, ways, off. Think of this as a read-write function of a storage area network. All server farms have remote sites to preserve data, for disaster recovery. All large companies have this, and so do governments as well. I am guessing that this is a feature of the cosmos-or really, just, hoping that it is so. Mitch -Original Message- From: Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net To: - Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net Sent: Sat, Sep 14, 2013 8:47 am Subject: Leibniz, Idealism and Parapsychology Leibniz, Idealism and Parapsychology Since it is often based on laboratory experiments, parapsychology has a scientific basis. But these results are smeared by proponents of the cult of materialism, which cannot accept the view that there is such a thing as a mind (a Self). That alone makes materialism a joke. Materialism originated with the Enlightenment primarily as a reaction against religion, replacing it with reason, as well as a misinterpretation or reinterpretation of Descartes, by claiming that mind can interact with the body, which Descartes maintained were two different substances, by instead claiming that both mind and body are matter. That mind is matter is nonsensical. Leibniz took the other tack, that of Idealism, in which both brain and mind were Mind, which has the philosophical support of Kant and Plato. But the metaphysics of Leibniz are difficult especially in the face of the bad and completely non-Cartesian philosophy materialisam because materialism, while it doesn't work for mind, DOES work very well for Newtonian mechanics. Hence conventional science these days is swolidly materialistic and Leibniz's platonism is liost to history. I will be posting more on this, but to begin with you might want to visit my Leibniz site, http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Re: Leibniz, Idealism and Parapsychology
Hi spudboy100 Sure. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough - Receiving the following content - From: spudboy100 Receiver: everything-list,rclough Time: 2013-09-14, 10:01:02 Subject: Re: Leibniz, Idealism and Parapsychology One idea I have been kicking around, is viewing through physics, that yes mind is bran, brain is mind, but not totally. More, precisely, the notion that the data, the pattern identity, the mind, the soul, personality, memory (whatever we wish to call it) is analogous to a computer network, where data and information, all information, gets written to some sort of media, a long, ways, off. Think of this as a read-write function of a storage area network. All server farms have remote sites to preserve data, for disaster recovery. All large companies have this, and so do governments as well. I am guessing that this is a feature of the cosmos-or really, just, hoping that it is so. Mitch -Original Message- From: Roger Clough To: - Roger Clough Sent: Sat, Sep 14, 2013 8:47 am Subject: Leibniz, Idealism and Parapsychology Leibniz, Idealism and Parapsychology Since it is often based on laboratory experiments, parapsychology has a scientific basis. But these results are smeared by proponents of the cult of materialism, which cannot accept the view that there is such a thing as a mind (a Self). That alone makes materialism a joke. Materialism originated with the Enlightenment primarily as a reaction against religion, replacing it with reason, as well as a misinterpretation or reinterpretation of Descartes, by claiming that mind can interact with the body, which Descartes maintained were two different substances, by instead claiming that both mind and body are matter. That mind is matter is nonsensical. Leibniz took the other tack, that of Idealism, in which both brain and mind were Mind, which has the philosophical support of Kant and Plato. But the metaphysics of Leibniz are difficult especially in the face of the bad and completely non-Cartesian philosophy materialisam because materialism, while it doesn't work for mind, DOES work very well for Newtonian mechanics. Hence conventional science these days is swolidly materialistic and Leibniz's platonism is liost to history. I will be posting more on this, but to begin with you might want to visit my Leibniz site, http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Leibniz, Idealism and Parapsychology
Well, its just an idea that fascinates me. Reading Gerhard t'Hooft in the 1990's sort of set it all in motion. Also Raphael Bousso, in their analysis oh the universe as hologram, etc. Are we the chuck of matter, or the reflection in the mirror? That kind of thing. -Original Message- From: Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net To: spudboy100 spudboy...@aol.com; everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sat, Sep 14, 2013 12:09 pm Subject: Re: Re: Leibniz, Idealism and Parapsychology Hi spudboy100 Sure. Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] See my Leibniz site at http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough - Receiving the following content - From: spudboy100 Receiver: everything-list,rclough Time: 2013-09-14, 10:01:02 Subject: Re: Leibniz, Idealism and Parapsychology One idea I have been kicking around, is viewing through physics, that yes mind is bran, brain is mind, but not totally. More, precisely, the notion that the data, the pattern identity, the mind, the soul, personality, memory (whatever we wish to call it) is analogous to a computer network, where data and information, all information, gets written to some sort of media, a long, ways, off. Think of this as a read-write function of a storage area network. All server farms have remote sites to preserve data, for disaster recovery. All large companies have this, and so do governments as well. I am guessing that this is a feature of the cosmos-or really, just, hoping that it is so. Mitch -Original Message- From: Roger Clough To: - Roger Clough Sent: Sat, Sep 14, 2013 8:47 am Subject: Leibniz, Idealism and Parapsychology Leibniz, Idealism and Parapsychology Since it is often based on laboratory experiments, parapsychology has a scientific basis. But these results are smeared by proponents of the cult of materialism, which cannot accept the view that there is such a thing as a mind (a Self). That alone makes materialism a joke. Materialism originated with the Enlightenment primarily as a reaction against religion, replacing it with reason, as well as a misinterpretation or reinterpretation of Descartes, by claiming that mind can interact with the body, which Descartes maintained were two different substances, by instead claiming that both mind and body are matter. That mind is matter is nonsensical. Leibniz took the other tack, that of Idealism, in which both brain and mind were Mind, which has the philosophical support of Kant and Plato. But the metaphysics of Leibniz are difficult especially in the face of the bad and completely non-Cartesian philosophy materialisam because materialism, while it doesn't work for mind, DOES work very well for Newtonian mechanics. Hence conventional science these days is swolidly materialistic and Leibniz's platonism is liost to history. I will be posting more on this, but to begin with you might want to visit my Leibniz site, http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
