Leibniz’s monads were an attempt to resolve the mind-body problem. Supposedly, monads are something like atoms, and something like souls. They don’t interact with each other—all causality goes from God directly to the monads, not from one monad to the other—for example, perception is only accurate by God arranging for monads’ perceptions to be accurate.
It seems like really incredibly strange metaphysics / theology to me.
It seems like really incredibly strange metaphysics / theology to me.
I agree. Bertrand Russell explained it as due to Leibniz’s beliefs about causality—one substance could not affect another substance. By a monad I just mean an elementary “thing” which can have mental states.
I don’t know much, but...
Leibniz’s monads were an attempt to resolve the mind-body problem. Supposedly, monads are something like atoms, and something like souls. They don’t interact with each other—all causality goes from God directly to the monads, not from one monad to the other—for example, perception is only accurate by God arranging for monads’ perceptions to be accurate.
It seems like really incredibly strange metaphysics / theology to me.
I agree. Bertrand Russell explained it as due to Leibniz’s beliefs about causality—one substance could not affect another substance. By a monad I just mean an elementary “thing” which can have mental states.