>>Hey Dragan,
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>>I hope you are well.
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>>Any luck with the paper?
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>>Did anyone else take a shot?
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>>http://www.cloudmusiccompany.com/paper.htm
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>>Just wondering how many still think its babble and how many understand all 3 steps?
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>SNIP - The monads are metaphysical matter. Pure substance.
>Atoms are physical matter, which is an "illusion" of our consciousness.
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>monad - noun
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>Definition:
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>1. microbiology single-celled microorganism: a microorganism consisting of just one cell, especially a flagellate protozoan. Genus Monas.
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>2. chemistry atom with valence of one: an atom or chemical group that has a valence of one
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>3. philosophy basic entity in metaphysics of Leibnitz: in the metaphysics of Leibnitz, an indivisible indestructible unit that is the basic element of reality and a microcosm of it.
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>[Mid-16th century. Directly or via French monade< late Latin monad-< Greek monos "single"]
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>If monads are real and physical atoms are not and you and I are made of atoms then I have not sent this message and your monitor isn't really there and you haven't read this. Is there any proof that monads really exist?



My use of language differs from Leibniz's in terminology, but it's not all that important.

Leibniz says "space, time, matter (atoms) are illusions".

His point is that physical Reality itself is an illusion. (Metaphysical Reality is what is actually real.)

If he were alive today, I would ask him "If all of reality is an illusion, doesn't that mean illusion is an illusion?"

Sort of makes you wonder how much these words actually mean.


I prefer to think that atoms are real. Just as you and I are real.

When we speak of monads, we have to switch to a different ontological and epistemological context: the square in figure a, rather than the circle.

I would agree that monads are real, but only if we agree they are real in a different kind of way than atoms or you or I are real.


Of course, that may be interesting to some but not to physicists.

I think it can be made interesting by saying the same sort of thing but purely using mathematics.

That's the aim of the steps described in my paper.