tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post7989531478897639254..comments2024-03-27T20:37:09.185-05:00Comments on Alexander Pruss's Blog: Are Leibniz's monads immaterial?Alexander R Prusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-57151406697180759832016-04-12T09:53:52.246-05:002016-04-12T09:53:52.246-05:00Interesting question. It's possible that just ...Interesting question. It's possible that just as Descartes thought there was a specific piece of the brain that was responsible for the mind-body interface, the dominant monad could have the point of view of a specific point according to Leibniz.<br /><br />But I agree that it might be that the dominant monad's point of view integrates the points of view of the sensory monads in such a way that it doesn't end up being at a point. There are two options: maybe it has a vague, underdetermined location ("somewhere in the brain or body"?) or maybe it's an extended location's point of view. <br /><br />Perhaps the dominant monad is analogous to God, and just as maybe God sees from all the points of view in the universe at once, the dominant monad could see from all the points of view in the body at once?Alexander R Prusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-66307942303747547602016-04-12T08:10:22.213-05:002016-04-12T08:10:22.213-05:00Is the location of my dominant monad’s point of vi...Is the location of my dominant monad’s point of view a <i>point</i>? I feel like this might be a silly question, but I don’t know how to answer it. If it is a point, then it seems like it should be obvious to me which point it is. It isn’t. (Somewhere in my right or left eye? In my ears? In the middle of my brain? None of these feels right.) If it is not a point, then (plausibly) it must occupy some extended region of space. But if the place of my dominant monad is extended, how can we say that my dominant monad is unextended?SMatthewStoltehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06632670946997680263noreply@blogger.com