
Episode 114: Schopenhauer: “The World Is Will”
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Nature of Stimuli
A small stimulus can yield a large effect than any organic organized body. Any stimuli are just anything that affects organic bodies. A cause in the narrow sense of the word is state of matter which, while it introduces another state with necessity, yet suffers just as great a change itself as that which it causes. So think about if you pour water on a plant and then the plant grows up into a tree. Yes, a small stimulus can yields a large effect more than any organicorganized body.
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