If We Were Magically Shrunk And Put Into Someone's Brain While She Was Thinking, We Would See All The Pumps, Pistons, Gears And Levers Working Away And We Would Be Able To Describe The Workings Completely, In Mechanical Terms, Thereby Completely Describing The Thought Processes Of The Brain. But That Description Would Not Contain Any Mention Of Thought! It Would Contain Nothing But Descriptions Of Pumps, Pistons, Levers!

-Gottfried Leibniz

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If We Were Magically Shrunk And Put

Gottfried Leibniz

If We Were Magically Shrunk And Put Into Someone's Brain While She Was Thinking, We Would See All The Pumps, Pistons, Gears And Levers Working Away And We Would Be Able To Describe The Workings Completely, In Mechanical Terms, Thereby Completely Describing The Thought Processes Of The Brain. But That Description Would Not Contain Any Mention Of Thought! It Would Contain Nothing But Descriptions Of Pumps, Pistons, Levers!

Topic

Thinking

Brain

Would Be

Our Reasonings Are Grounded Upon Two Great Principles, That Of Contradiction, In Virtue Of Which We Judge False That Which Involves A Contradiction, And True That Which Is Opposed Or Contradictory To The False.

Science

Two

Judging