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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz explored the nature of consciousness by arguing that the mind can possess ideas or perceptions without the individual being consciously aware of them, as evidenced in [1].
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Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu 2 facts
claimGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz defines consciousness as 'apperception'.
referenceThe Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Panpsychism lists related entries including George Berkeley, consciousness, René Descartes, dualism, emergent properties, epiphenomenalism, Charles Hartshorne, William James, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, mereology, monism, neutral monism, pantheism, physicalism, qualia, quantum theory and consciousness, Josiah Royce, Baruch Spinoza, Alfred North Whitehead, and Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt.
Consciousness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 ... plato.stanford.edu 2 facts
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.
claimG.W. Leibniz proposed a theory of mind in his 1686 work, Discourse on Metaphysics, which allowed for infinitely many degrees of consciousness and the possibility of unconscious thoughts, referred to as "petites perceptions."
David Chalmers Thinks the Hard Problem Is Really Hard scientificamerican.com 1 fact
claimDavid Chalmers acknowledges that he was not the first person to identify consciousness as a special kind of problem, noting that philosophers such as Descartes and Leibniz previously thought along similar lines.
Sources of Knowledge: Rationalism, Empiricism, and the Kantian ... press.rebus.community 1 fact
claimGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz argues that it is possible for the mind to contain ideas without the individual being consciously aware of them, using the example of a tune heard in a marketplace that is not consciously recalled but is recognizable upon hearing it again.
David Chalmers - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
claimDavid Chalmers notes that his arguments regarding consciousness are similar to a line of thought originating in Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's 1714 "mill" argument.
Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2015 Edition) plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
claimGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz posited that almost all mental states are unconscious, and that low-level monads do not aspire to consciousness, which he termed apperception.
The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com 1 fact
claimGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's "mills argument" is historically one of the earliest and most prominent observations regarding the explanatory gap between physical and phenomenal accounts of consciousness.