The impasse which Leibniz tried to solve by way of introducing the notion of the "preestablished harmony" between the monads, guaranteed by God Himself, the supreme, all-encompassing monad, repeats itself today, in the guise of the problem of communication: how does each of us know that he or she is in touch with the "real other" behind the screen, not only with spectral simulacra?" - Slavoj Zizek, On Belief.
The answer, of course, is that it doesn't matter, as spectral simulacra is like a ghostly bread pudding, satisfying without the carbohydrates.
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