A question Roger: To recap:
"there is only one mind (the Perceiver or Cosmic Mind or God) that perceives and acts, doing this through the Surpreme (most dominant) monad. It perceives the whole universe with perfect clarity. " "Only it can perceive and act ..... the Supreme Monad continually and instantly updates its universe of monads." " Thus each monad knows everything in the universe, but only from its own perspective, and monads being monads, not perfectly clear but distorted." I'm very gratified to hear that I know everything and to finally know that I know everything. :) But, Im interested in the process by which the perfectly clear perception degrades into a distorted one. So there's the supreme monad injecting me continually and instantly with its perfectly clear perceptions. Being windowless, they are not my perceptions at all. Is there something inherent in the act of perception injection which is flawed? Or does the Supreme monad deliberately inject distortions to maintain supremacy? Afterall, in an ideal universe there is no space to differentiate my perspective from anyone elses. This perspective must be part of the perception injection musn't it? Regards. CP. > From: rclo...@verizon.net > To: rclo...@verizon.net > Subject: The secret of perception. Particular minds and how they relate to > the overall or Cosmic Mind > Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 08:41:12 -0400 > > The secret of perception. Particular minds and how they relate to the overall > or Cosmic Mind > > The problem of perception in materialistic thinking is that it forces us to > think that there is a homunculo us > > Leibniz has a more complicated understanding of particular minds and how they > relate to Cosmic Mind. > > In Leibniz's metaphysics, there is only one mind (the Perceiver or Cosmic > Mind or God) that > perceives and acts, doing this through the Surpreme (most dominant) monad. > It perceives the whole universe with perfect clarity. > > Only it can perceive and act, because its monads (which includes our minds) > have no windows. > The monads (our minds) perceive only indirectly, as the Supreme Monad is the > only > --what we would call-- "conscious" mind. We only think and perceive > indirectly, > as the Supreme Monad continually and instantly updates its universe of > monads. Thus there is no problem communing with God (the Cosmic Mind) > as we do so continually and necessarily, although only aqccording to our own > abilities > and perspective. s > > That we ourselves, not God, appear to be the perceiver is thus only apparent. > > Also, because Cosmic Mind sees the entire universe as viewed by a > kaleidoscope of > individual monads, the perceptions it returns to us contains not only what > we see (the universe from our own individual perspectives) but what the > perceptions of all of the other monads. Thus each monad knows everything > in the universe, but only from its own perspective, and monads being monads, > not perfectly clear but distorted. > > > > Dr. Roger Clough NIST (ret.) 6/1/2013 > See my Leibniz site at > http://team.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?hl=en. > 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?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
