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.
