C301Mind and metaphysics
SMM’s unity-and-multiplicity problem is directly connected with Ibn Arabi’s concern for how differentiated manifestation depends on a reality that is not one finite object among others. 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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C302Mind and metaphysics
Leibniz explains a world of many perspectives through many monads; SMM seeks many perspectives from one Monad. This is a substantive reversal of explanatory direction. 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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C303Mind and metaphysics
Spinoza’s one substance and SMM’s one source both allow particular things to be dependent without becoming meaningless appearances. The key comparison is the status of differentiation. 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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C304Mind and metaphysics
Neutral monism can treat mental and physical classifications as organizations of one underlying basis, while SMM gives that basis a distinctive generative unity. 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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C305Mind and metaphysics
IIT’s unity concerns the irreducibility of a specified cause-effect structure, whereas SMM’s unity concerns the source of all generated multiplicity. These are different scales and different criteria. 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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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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C420Connections across theories
Neoplatonic accounts relate multiplicity to a unity that is not one ordinary object among others. SMM shares that fundamental question while giving temporal generation a distinctive role. This essay compares dependence, emanation and completion, showing why a differentiated world need not be understood as material flowing outward from a source located at its spatial center.
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