THE SINGLE MONAD MODEL · DUALITY OF TIME THEORY
Mind and metaphysics
Unity, renewal, psychical experience, consciousness, agency, and Ibn Arabi’s cosmology.
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How to read the comparisons →- C301Mind and metaphysics
Unity and multiplicity: SMM/DTT and Ibn Arabi’s 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.
Comparative article · 6 min read - C302Mind and metaphysics
Unity and multiplicity: SMM/DTT and Leibniz’s Monadology
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.
Comparative article · 5 min read - C303Mind and metaphysics
Unity and multiplicity: SMM/DTT and Spinoza’s substance monism
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.
Comparative article · 5 min read - C304Mind and metaphysics
Unity and multiplicity: SMM/DTT and Neutral monism and Russellian monism
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.
Comparative article · 6 min read - C305Mind and metaphysics
Unity and multiplicity: SMM/DTT and Integrated information theory
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.
Comparative article · 5 min read - C306Mind and metaphysics
Unity and multiplicity: SMM/DTT and Panpsychism and cosmopsychism
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.
Comparative article · 5 min read - C307Mind and metaphysics
Continuous creation and renewal: SMM/DTT and Ibn Arabi’s metaphysics
Renewed creation is one of the strongest conceptual continuities between SMM/DTT and Ibn Arabi’s metaphysics. The world’s dependence on its source is ongoing rather than exhausted by an initial event. 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.
Comparative article · 5 min read - C308Mind and metaphysics
Continuous creation and renewal: SMM/DTT and Leibniz’s Monadology
Leibniz’s monads undergo internal changes while remaining enduring simple substances. DTT’s renewed creation can instead treat observable objects as successive products of 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.
Comparative article · 5 min read - C309Mind and metaphysics
Continuous creation and renewal: SMM/DTT and Spinoza’s substance monism
Spinoza’s dependence of modes on substance is not an intermittent replacement operation. It is an ontological relation within an immanent order. 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.
Comparative article · 5 min read - C310Mind and metaphysics
Continuous creation and renewal: SMM/DTT and Neutral monism and Russellian monism
Neutral monism need not privilege creation or renewal; its central question is how mental and physical organizations relate to a common basis. 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.
Comparative article · 5 min read - C311Mind and metaphysics
Continuous creation and renewal: SMM/DTT and Integrated information theory
IIT evaluates intrinsic cause-effect organization for a specified system and state. DTT’s renewal concerns how such systems and states are generated 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.
Comparative article · 5 min read - C312Mind and metaphysics
Continuous creation and renewal: SMM/DTT and Panpsychism and cosmopsychism
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.
Comparative article · 5 min read - C313Mind and metaphysics
The Cosmic Heart and the single source: SMM/DTT and Ibn Arabi’s 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.
Comparative article · 5 min read - C314Mind and metaphysics
The Cosmic Heart and the single source: SMM/DTT and Leibniz’s Monadology
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.
Comparative article · 5 min read - C315Mind and metaphysics
The Cosmic Heart and the single source: SMM/DTT and Spinoza’s substance monism
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.
Comparative article · 5 min read - C316Mind and metaphysics
The Cosmic Heart and the single source: SMM/DTT and Neutral monism and Russellian monism
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.
Comparative article · 5 min read - C317Mind and metaphysics
The Cosmic Heart and the single source: SMM/DTT and Integrated information theory
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.
Comparative article · 5 min read - C318Mind and metaphysics
The Cosmic Heart and the single source: SMM/DTT and Panpsychism and cosmopsychism
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.
Comparative article · 5 min read - C319Mind and metaphysics
Psychical and physical realms: SMM/DTT and Ibn Arabi’s 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.
Comparative article · 5 min read - C320Mind and metaphysics
Psychical and physical realms: SMM/DTT and Leibniz’s Monadology
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.
Comparative article · 5 min read - C321Mind and metaphysics
Psychical and physical realms: SMM/DTT and Spinoza’s substance monism
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.
Comparative article · 5 min read - C322Mind and metaphysics
Psychical and physical realms: SMM/DTT and Neutral monism and Russellian monism
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.
Comparative article · 6 min read - C323Mind and metaphysics
Psychical and physical realms: SMM/DTT and Integrated information theory
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.
Comparative article · 5 min read - C324Mind and metaphysics
Psychical and physical realms: SMM/DTT and Panpsychism and cosmopsychism
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.
Comparative article · 5 min read
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