C337Mind and metaphysics
Renewed manifestation and continuing identity are a central tension in SMM’s interpretation of Ibn Arabi. The philosophical promise is that a thing can depend continuously on its source while retaining a recognizable form and history. 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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C338Mind and metaphysics
Leibniz has a direct answer to personal persistence at the fundamental level: a monad remains the same simple substance through its changing perceptions. 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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C339Mind and metaphysics
Spinoza’s modes can persist through a characteristic organization even while their components change. This gives SMM/DTT a strong conceptual partner for a pattern-based account of identity. 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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C340Mind and metaphysics
Neutral monism can understand persistence through stable relations among underlying events rather than through a separately enduring mental or material substance. DTT adds a proposed source law that generates those relations across completions. 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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C341Mind and metaphysics
IIT identifies a system’s intrinsic causal organization under a specified analysis, while personal persistence concerns a relation across time. Even if one accepts IIT’s account of experience at a moment, a further argument is needed to identify the same subject through changing structures. A worked example clarifies the distinction and its implications for SMM/DTT’s account of generation and completed observation.
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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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