of course electrons don't think! they are merely the chaff and dross thrown off by the real movers and thinkers in the universe, which are monads[0]. "Just whe

of course electrons don't think! they are merely the chaff and dross thrown off by the real movers and thinkers in the universe, which are monads[0]. "Just when one is about to judge Liebniz as having the strangest mind of anyone who ever lived, one remembers Newton and his lifelong obsession with alchemy and his strenuous efforts to predict the exact date of the End of the World by ransacking the Book of Revelations for encrypted clues"[1] [0]: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/leibniz/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/leibniz/ [1]: http://faculty.cord.edu/andersod/Stephenson-Metaphysics.pdf http://faculty.cord.edu/andersod/Stephenson-Metaphysics.pdf