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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz is fundamentally linked to the concept of perception through his metaphysics, which posits that all monads are centers of perception [1] and that every substance possesses it [2]. He further utilized perception to distinguish between matter and mind [3], defined it as a core mental quality of monads [4], and famously distinguished it from apperception [5].
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Critique of Panpsychism: Philosophical Coherence and Scientific ... thequran.love 1 fact
referenceGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's 'Monadology' (1714) posits that every substance possesses perception, describing a world of living creatures existing even in the least part of matter.
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
claimGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's inability to find an intrinsic nature for his basic elements other than a mentalistic one, modeled on perception and spontaneous activity, has been highly influential on the development of contemporary Russellian monism.
Consciousness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 ... plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
claimG.W. Leibniz was the first philosopher to explicitly distinguish between perception (awareness) and apperception (self-awareness).
Non-physicalist Theories of Consciousness cambridge.org 1 fact
referenceGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, in paragraph 17 of his Monadology, proposed a thought experiment known as 'Leibniz's mill,' which asks us to imagine a conscious system large enough to walk into and inspect, arguing that no matter how much one learns about the system's parts, one could never find anything to explain a perception.