Hi Stathis Papaioannou
Thanks for the correction. Roger Clough, [email protected] 9/7/2012 Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so that everything could function." ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Stathis Papaioannou Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-06, 23:04:34 Subject: Re: Leibniz on heaven, hell, and zombies (?) On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Roger Clough <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Stathis Papaioannou > > A fun question. I assume that zombies are the dead brought back > to life somehow. That monads cannot be created or destroyed > Is a peculiar feature of Leibniz's metaphysics that would enable the > resurrection of zombies. > > Leibniz believed that even when we die, our monad will > still be attached to a dead and rotting corpse, since monads cannot be > created > or destroyed and must always be attached to bodies. Heaven then at first > seems problematic, but that may be the reason for the Bible's doctrine of > the resurrection of > the dead, during which we will be given spiffy new (younger probably) > bodies. Presumably those sent to hell would remain rotting bodies. > > It seems reasonable to assume that the witches or voodoo used to > bring the zombies back from a dead state would have imperfect > abilities so that the dead would then be brought back perhaps to a > state reasembing a nightmare in which they are made to believe > that they must eat human flesh So there you are. > > The zombies should be killable a second time like the first. > > To answer you second question, I don't believe we are > zombies because our intellect seems not to be in a dream state and also > that we don't crave human flesh. A philosophical zombie is a being that acts as if it's conscious but isn't really: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
