C306Mind and metaphysics
Cosmopsychism and SMM both invite a top-down explanation of plurality, but their starting unities differ. Cosmopsychism posits an experiential whole; SMM posits a nonspatial generative source. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
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C312Mind and metaphysics
Cosmopsychism can interpret local experiences as dependent manifestations of a continuing experiential whole. SMM/DTT offers a related image of renewal from one source, but adds a proposed temporal organization of production. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
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C318Mind and metaphysics
The Cosmic Heart and cosmopsychism both offer a holistic orientation, but the metaphor of a living center does not by itself establish a cosmic subject. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
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C324Mind and metaphysics
Cosmopsychism gives experience a fundamental role and treats ordinary minds as dependent on a wider experiential reality. SMM/DTT’s psychical–physical distinction can align with that view if the Single Monad is given an experiential character. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
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C330Mind and metaphysics
Cosmopsychism begins with an experiential whole, while the experienced present belongs to a limited perspective with selective memory and anticipation. SMM/DTT’s production of local readouts could help articulate how a restricted present depends on a wider source. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
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C336Mind and metaphysics
Cosmopsychism raises a distinctive agency problem: if local minds depend on one experiential whole, in what sense are their actions their own? The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
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C342Mind and metaphysics
Cosmopsychism can ground local subjects in one experiential whole, but it must explain why a local subject persists as this subject through change. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
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C348Mind and metaphysics
Cosmopsychism may place local temporal experiences within a wider experiential whole, but a cosmic subject need not be timeless. It could possess its own succession, or its relation to time could be left unspecified. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
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C354Mind and metaphysics
Cosmopsychism supplies a contemporary vocabulary for unity of experiential ground and diversity of local minds, making it a natural comparison for SMM’s Ibn Arabi-inspired cosmology. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
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C360Mind and metaphysics
Cosmopsychism faces the problem of distinct first-person perspectives within an experiential whole. SMM/DTT faces the related constructive problem of different observer readouts from one source. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation, completed records and account of the observable world.
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