On 14 Dec 2013, at 15:08, Roger Clough wrote:
Leibniz's theory of perception and consciousness.
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 fleshly homunculus inside our brains.
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 or the One)
The One, or the outer god, is not a perceiver. The inner god is.
that perceives and acts, doing this through the Supreme (most
dominant) monad.
The universal numbers. OK.
It perceives the whole universe with perfect clarity.
OK for the outer god. (It is trivial. Arithmetical truth "sees" the
whole arithmetical truth with perfect clarity).
The inner god still see the truth perfectly, but no more completely.
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.
The outer god is not a "monad" I think, in the comp "theology". Nor an
actor. Only the inner God knows and act. I think.
They are the same God, but looking through different window. Monads
have no windows? Monads are sort of windows.
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 , the One)
as we do so continually and necessarily, although only according to
our own abilities
and perspectives .
I might be OK. But the universal machine is not a "god", just the
"man", and he the one doing the updates. God don't mess to much with
it, except for making it consistent and probable. Apparently, with
comp, and standard definition.
That we ourselves, not God (or Cosmic Mind, the One), 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 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.
That makes sense with monad = number (conceived intensionally, like i
in "phi_i").
Suprem monad = universal number
Outer god = arithmetical truth (something highly NOT computable)
Inner god = the authentic first person (the conjunction of belief and
truth, the fixed point of doubt, ...).
The inner god's "growing" beliefs (in arithmetic) is also not
computable in general, but its proposition logic is decidable.
I just try to make sense of what you say, in the simpler frame of the
Monism of Plotinus, or its translation in arithmetic. In this case
Leibniz is again close to Plotinus, at least if you distinguish God
from the "supreme monads".
Bruno
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