C319Mind and metaphysics
Ibn Arabi’s barzakh provides a powerful comparison for the relation between psychical and physical: a mediating order can both distinguish and connect. 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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C320Mind and metaphysics
Leibniz coordinates bodily and perceptual histories without ordinary causal traffic between separate monads. SMM/DTT instead seeks a common source for physical and psychical appearances. 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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C321Mind and metaphysics
Spinoza’s treatment of thought and extension offers a clear alternative to two interacting substances. Mental and bodily descriptions belong to one order rather than sending forces across a metaphysical gap. 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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C322Mind and metaphysics
Neutral monism is especially close to SMM’s attempt to avoid treating mind and matter as unrelated ultimate substances. Its basis can be organized into mental and physical descriptions, while DTT adds a proposal about how those organizations are generated. 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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C323Mind and metaphysics
IIT proposes a relation between experience and the intrinsic causal structure of a physical substrate. It does not begin with a separate psychical realm outside that substrate. 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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