C313Mind and metaphysics
The Cosmic Heart draws its meaning from a metaphysical vocabulary in which concentrated unity and living manifestation belong together. Its connection with Ibn Arabi is therefore interpretive and theological before it is mathematical. 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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C314Mind and metaphysics
Leibniz’s world contains many monads coordinated through a common divine order, while the Cosmic Heart in SMM emphasizes one active source of observable multiplicity. 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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C315Mind and metaphysics
Spinoza’s substance is not an external artisan periodically acting on a separate world. SMM’s Cosmic Heart can resemble an immanent ground when it signifies the world’s continuous dependence, but it can differ if it denotes an active sequence of production whose products are distinct from their source. A worked example clarifies the distinction and its implications for SMM/DTT’s account of generation and completed observation.
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C316Mind and metaphysics
Neutral monism asks what common basis can support mental and physical descriptions; the Cosmic Heart gives SMM’s common basis an active and symbolically rich source role. 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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C317Mind and metaphysics
A heart metaphor suggests unity and integration, but IIT uses a specific causal criterion for integration. One source feeding many outputs need not form an irreducible whole in IIT’s sense. 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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