Re: [coders] Monads Made Easy (and Hard)

[Michael Lake <Mike.Lake@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> The list was a little quiet so I thought I'd post a link to my
> blog:
>     http://www.mega-nerd.com/erikd/Blog/CodeHacking/monads_made_easy.html
> I think I finally *get* Monads.

The Gonads of Leibniz

"The philosophy of Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz was strongly influenced by two 
factors, rationalism and Christianity. Leibniz disagreed with Newton that the 
universe was made up of indivisible elements called a-toms (Greek for 
"not-divisible"). He believed that the universe was made up of pieces called 
"monads". In his Monadology, he describes the monads as having no material existence, 
hence no movement, and no place or time. Each monad had a distinct potentiality, 
that, when combined with other monads and the directives of God, created material 
substances. In addition, each monad had a copy or DNA of the entire universe inside it."

Reference: http://davidkaye.tripod.com/id37.htm

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Michael Lake
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