brain ↔ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz explored the relationship between physical matter and consciousness by using the brain as a thought experiment in his work Monadology, as described in [1].

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Consciousness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 ... plato.stanford.edu Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 1 fact

claimIn his 1720 work, Monadology, G.W. Leibniz used the analogy of a mill to argue that consciousness cannot arise from mere matter, asserting that an observer walking through the mechanical operations of an expanded brain would not see any conscious thoughts.