Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz: "Moreover, it must be confessed that
perception and that which depends upon it are inexplicable on
mechanical grounds, that is to say, by means of figures and motions.
And supposing there were a machine, so constructed as to think, feel,
and have perception, it might be conceived as increased in size, while
keeping the same pro****tions, so that one might go into it as into a
mill. That being so, we should, on examining its interior, find only
parts which work one upon another, and never anything by which to
explain a perception. Thus it is in a simple substance, and not in a
compound or in a machine, that perception must be sought for."
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