What is "monads"

Usage examples of "monads".

I have ignored the fact that humans are not isolated monads, existing trapped inside their own heads, but are profoundly social beings, continually interact-with the outside worlds of things and people.

Tiny particles, or life monads, assemble and reassemble, in this form and that form.

Some monads intermingle and ascend the life cycle from sand and water through the vegetable and animal realms to those higher creatures who possess five senses, a category that includes not only human beings but the gods themselves.