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Leibniz - Whatever moves is being constantly created
Identifier
020582
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
This is pure oriental thought.
In effect, all is spirit in reality. There is some spirit that animates - function - and some we perceive as form - congealed spirit. The perceived form only exists because it executes like a computer program - is constantly on the move. Thus form is in the continuous act of being created and perceptions are simply a trail or log of previous states of that form.
Leibniz appears to have visualised it like a series of snapshots or the frames in a movie film, where frame after frame when replayed give the impression of smooth actual movement whereas no smoothness exists. One moment one is in one state, the the function executes, and a new state is born.
In theory, one supposes that if total stillness occurred of all bodily parts - no activity at all of anything physical in the body, one would disappear as a form - dematerialise.
A description of the experience
Whatever moves is continuously created and bodies are something at any instant in assignable motion, but that they are nothing at any time midway between the instants in motion.
The source of the experience
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm vonConcepts, symbols and science items
Concepts
FormFunction
Perceptions
Perceptions - what happens to perceptions
Perceptions - what has perceptions
Spirit