1.300 - 318) called monads, firsts, or «feeling qualities,» are omitted from the account of things found in physics and chemistry, except for the methodological point that we detect the presence of the various magnitudes and spatio - temporal structures by
our qualitative human sense perceptions, visual or tactual.
How are we supposed to derive
human consciousness — our rationality and intentionality, our richly variegated
qualitative experiences, our
sense of free choice, our complex and highly developed agency — from the aboriginal mentality of the simple individuals, presumably the basic particles, that constitute us?