PHL210Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: New Essays On Human Understanding, Thought Experiment, Monadology
16 Jan 2018
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Phl210 lec 26: monadology, perception/apperception, the "mill" thought experiment, the preface to the new essays, explanation/intelligibility, the reflections on the souls of beasts, perception and activity. The "mill: perception cannot be explained mechanically, the thought experiment: imagine this alleged thinking machine blown up to the size of a mill, all that goes on is parts pushing other parts, nothing to explain perception. The new essays: the modifications of a thing must be such that they can be understood through its nature, that is not what happens "in the order of nature" or normally. Locke: god could give matter the power to think. Reflections. : matter is constuted from antitypy (impenetrability) and extension, changes or modifications of these, changes in shape and place, are passive. "perception cannot be deduced from bare matter since it consists in some action"
