
Episode 6: Leibniz’s Monadology: What Is There?
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Importance of Consciousness
"I'm not going to pretend that I in any way, shape, or form have any kind of grasp over this particular subject matter," he says. "The more I'm reading that section 81 again, I keep rereading it and it just sounds more and more completely bizarre the more I say it to myself." He's trying to understand if you take the view that consciousness or what he's calling the soul or what have you is somehow a product of physical activities or physical things. But again, we're kind of getting away from. Yeah, I think we can discuss that in the future. We'll probably have different views on that!"
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