On 13 Jan 2013, at 11:42, Roger Clough wrote:
> Here very briefly is how Leibniz might explain morphic resonance and
> the presence of the past.
> in terms of his monadology. For that, see :
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http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/leibniz.htm
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> I am not a marxist.
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> 1. Each substance or simple body has a physical representation in
> the phenomenol world
> and a mental representation called a monad in the mental world.
> (This is Idealism)
Too much fuzzy for me.
>
> 2. The monads are closely related to morphisms. Each monad has
> within it a
> homunculus (so that the monadology is throughly anthropomorphic),
> representing roughly Aristotle's levels of being, some complete
> (man) , some primitive (a rock).
I think a universal program might do the work, or a Löbian one. A
universal person.
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> 3. Also within each monad are a stack of "perceptions", which are
> not conventional perceptions (seen directly
> by the monad) but are snapshots given it in a rapid series of
> updates by the Supreme Monad (God or the One).
That's the heart of the "aristotelian error", pehaps. This is only a
local probable universal machine. Reality is *much* vaster.
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> 4. These perceptions reflect all of the perceptions of the other
> monads (from their
> own perspectives) in the universe, which is made up entirely of
> monads. So it's
> a holographic universe.
Not bad metaphor.
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> 5. The stack of past perceptions in each monad are its memory. Each
> contains a snapshot of the
> entire universe of other monads.
There is something like that. It would be long to show the math here.
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> 6. Leibniz does not (so far I know) go into the past with any monad,
> but
> each monad also contains a stack of "appetites", which are what the
> monad desires
> at any instant. If there is a connection between the perceptions and
> the appetites,
> the monad would inform the homunculus to repeat the past. Here's
> your habits.
OK. Leibniz was well inspired. He would have love the UMs. I think.
And Church's thesis, which make the U genuinely Universal.
>
> In all the universe of monads acts like a computer program with the
> Supreme Monad as its central processing unit.
The supreme monad are the man, the God of comp is far more beyond
(transcendental), at least from inside computerland.
Bruno
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> 1/12/2013
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