The Forbidden History of Science (The God Series Book 26) by Mike Hockney

Author:Mike Hockney [Hockney, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Publisher: Hyperreality Books
Published: 2015-04-25T23:00:00+00:00

Sufficient Reason

Everything exists according to a reason. “Nothing arises from nothing.” Everything that exists has a sufficient reason to exist.

“That which contains more reality is better than that which contains less reality.” – Leibniz

“[The] best possible world [is that] containing the greatest variety of phenomena from the smallest amount of principles.” – Leibniz

“Space, time, extension and motion are not things but well-founded modes of our consideration. Extension, motion, and bodies themselves, insofar as they consist in extension and motion alone, are not substances but true phenomena, like rainbows and parhelia.” – Leibniz

“...matter considered as mass in itself is only a pure phenomenon or a well-founded appearance, as are also space and time.” – Leibniz

“Leibniz splits the realm of the actual into two domains: the realm of monads, the real world, which forms the object of study of metaphysics; and the realm of the things of our everyday experience, the phenomenal world, which forms the object of study of the sciences in general, but pre-eminently of physics.” – Nicholas Rescher

“...mind itself consists properly in only a point of space, whereas a body occupies a place... If we give the mind a greater place than a point, it is already a body, and has parts external to each other; it is therefore not intimately present to itself and accordingly cannot reflect on all its parts and actions... But assuming that the mind does consist in a point, it is indivisible and indestructible...” – Leibniz

Only a monadic mind – an ontological point – can be “intimately present to itself”. A physical brain – as something extended – cannot be “intimately present to itself” and “cannot reflect on all its parts and actions”. A physical brain, without a monadic mind controlling it, could never have any sense of self-identity and personality. We would all be biological robots or zombies.

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