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Leibniz's mill: a standalone construct

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Philosophy of mind

the thought experiment of walking inside a thinking machine enlarged to the size of a mill and finding only moving parts, never perception, used against mechanistic accounts of mind.

In philosophy of mind, Leibniz's mill refers to the thought experiment of walking inside a thinking machine enlarged to the size of a mill and finding only moving parts, never perception, used against mechanistic accounts of mind. This meaning comes from Leibniz (1898) in The monadology and other philosophical writings.[1]

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Leibniz, G. W. (1898). The monadology and other philosophical writings. Oxford U.P. ISBN 9780198241409

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