Re: MD Materialism and DQ

From: Mark Steven Heyman (markheyman@infoproconsulting.com)
Date: Tue Jul 19 2005 - 15:24:47 BST

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    Scott, Ian (and dmb)

    Ian said:
    For me MoQ is entirely consistent with being physicalist - and yes I
    do have a straight face. It's only inconsistent for people who hang
    on the the ancient notion that the physical world is made of
    particles of matter, rather than quality interactions of information.
    (That's me being pejorative BTW.)

    Scott:
    I'm not all that familiar with Leibniz, but what you say also
    sounds a lot like his monadology: that his monads, in contrast
    with Newton's atoms, perceived and processed information.

    msh:
    Yes! I'd forgotten about the Monadology. GWL spoke of monads as
    having appetition, desires. Sounds very close to preferences to me.

    "15. The action of the internal principle which brings about the
    change or the passing from one perception to another may be called
    appetition. It is true that the desire (l'appetit) is not always able
    to attain to the whole of the perception which it strives for, but it
    always attains a portion of it and reaches new perceptions. "

    The passages surrounding the one I pasted above further explore this
    idea. Here's a link:

    http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/leibniz.
    htm

    For you guys thinking about a Ph.D, how about a dissertation
    exploring the similarities between the Monadology and the MOQ? Such
    a subject has the added advantage of including the thought of a
    philosopher revered in Academia, thus maybe greasing the wheels of
    resistance as you search for a Philosophy Department amenable to
    studying Pirsig.

    Mark Steven Heyman (msh) 

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