Where's the math?
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Roger Clough <rclo...@verizon.net> wrote: > The self as lens: Leibniz's lens-like model of perception and reality. > > Although I cannot find a direct reference in Leibniz's writings, they > have not all been translated. Nevertheless Leibniz's model > of perception is seemingly based on the high technology of the 17th > century, > Huygen's microscope. The indirect reference to the perceiver > as based on the lens of a microscope, which can represent a > field of view at a single point, as a unity,, as a perceiver or self must > do > Leibniz's conceptioon of reality was similar to this : > > "Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because > of the interconnection of all things with one another. > I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity. > (*Gottfried Leibniz*, 1670) > > This single point in the perceiver and in reality itself > is reflected in Leibniz's monad (which represents the many in the one), > Plato's model of the One, the concepts of white and black holes > and the twistor in Penrose's physics.. > > Leibniz's monadology itself can be used to derive > the self as lens, since a person can be focused down > to be represented by a monad, which > cAn be understood as a point homunculus (the perceiver). > > It is also well known that Leibniz referred to the myriad > of microscopic organisms seen in a microscope as > vderying his view of the world as the many in the one > (the monad). > > > > 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.
