THE SINGLE MONAD MODEL · DUALITY OF TIME THEORY
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Unity, renewal, psychical experience, consciousness, agency, and Ibn Arabi’s cosmology.
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How to read the comparisons →- C325Mind and metaphysics
Consciousness and the experienced present: SMM/DTT and Ibn Arabi’s metaphysics
Ibn Arabi’s attention to modes of knowing and manifestation gives the experienced present a significance that exceeds clock duration. SMM/DTT can relate this to the way a completed world becomes available to an observer. 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 - C326Mind and metaphysics
Consciousness and the experienced present: SMM/DTT and Leibniz’s Monadology
Leibniz’s succession of perceptions provides a natural account of an enduring perspective through changing contents. SMM/DTT instead needs to explain how a generated observer carries a coherent present across renewed 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 - C327Mind and metaphysics
Consciousness and the experienced present: SMM/DTT and Spinoza’s substance monism
Spinoza’s account of mind as related to the body makes the experienced present inseparable from an organized embodied perspective. SMM/DTT can draw on this relation when it treats an observer’s outer access as part of the generated world. 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 - C328Mind and metaphysics
Consciousness and the experienced present: SMM/DTT and Neutral monism and Russellian monism
Neutral monism can interpret the experienced present as an organization of events whose mental and physical classifications depend on their relations. DTT adds a possible generative explanation for that organization: inner dependencies yield a completed, memory-sensitive readout. 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 - C329Mind and metaphysics
Consciousness and the experienced present: SMM/DTT and Integrated information theory
IIT connects the unity of an experience with an intrinsic cause-effect structure at a specified scale. DTT connects outer availability with completion of nested 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 - C330Mind and metaphysics
Consciousness and the experienced present: SMM/DTT and Panpsychism and cosmopsychism
Cosmopsychism begins with an experiential whole, while the experienced present belongs to a limited perspective with selective memory and anticipation. SMM/DTT’s production of local readouts could help articulate how a restricted present depends on a wider 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 - C331Mind and metaphysics
Free will and temporal becoming: SMM/DTT and Ibn Arabi’s metaphysics
Ibn Arabi’s relation between divine determination, human capacities and responsibility gives agency a theological depth that cannot be reduced to a random choice mechanism. 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 - C332Mind and metaphysics
Free will and temporal becoming: SMM/DTT and Leibniz’s Monadology
Leibniz’s monads have internal principles of change, making their activity more than passive reception of external pushes. SMM/DTT similarly wants generated beings to exhibit organized action despite dependence on 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 - C333Mind and metaphysics
Free will and temporal becoming: SMM/DTT and Spinoza’s substance monism
Spinoza treats freedom through understanding and activity within necessity, rather than an uncaused interruption of nature. This is a valuable comparator for SMM/DTT because dependence on one source need not eliminate the distinction between acting through one’s organized capacities and being passively driven. A worked example clarifies the distinction and its implications for SMM/DTT’s account of generation and completed observation.
Comparative article · 5 min read - C334Mind and metaphysics
Free will and temporal becoming: SMM/DTT and Neutral monism and Russellian monism
Neutral monism changes the proposed basis of mind and matter, but does not automatically resolve freedom. A neutral event system can be deterministic or indeterministic, and neither property alone tells us whether a person controls an action. 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 - C335Mind and metaphysics
Free will and temporal becoming: SMM/DTT and Integrated information theory
IIT concerns intrinsic causal organization and a proposed identity with experience; it is not by itself a theory of moral responsibility or free choice. 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 - C336Mind and metaphysics
Free will and temporal becoming: SMM/DTT and Panpsychism and cosmopsychism
Cosmopsychism raises a distinctive agency problem: if local minds depend on one experiential whole, in what sense are their actions their own? 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 - C337Mind and metaphysics
Identity and persistence through change: SMM/DTT and Ibn Arabi’s 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.
Comparative article · 5 min read - C338Mind and metaphysics
Identity and persistence through change: SMM/DTT and Leibniz’s Monadology
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.
Comparative article · 5 min read - C339Mind and metaphysics
Identity and persistence through change: SMM/DTT and Spinoza’s substance monism
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.
Comparative article · 5 min read - C340Mind and metaphysics
Identity and persistence through change: SMM/DTT and Neutral monism and Russellian monism
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.
Comparative article · 5 min read - C341Mind and metaphysics
Identity and persistence through change: SMM/DTT and Integrated information theory
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.
Comparative article · 5 min read - C342Mind and metaphysics
Identity and persistence through change: SMM/DTT and Panpsychism and cosmopsychism
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.
Comparative article · 5 min read - C343Mind and metaphysics
Spiritual time and eternity: SMM/DTT and Ibn Arabi’s metaphysics
Ibn Arabi’s distinctions among temporal and spiritual modes invite SMM/DTT to treat eternity as more than an indefinitely long clock interval. The source can be understood as grounding succession without being simply an earlier event in that succession. 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 - C344Mind and metaphysics
Spiritual time and eternity: SMM/DTT and Leibniz’s Monadology
Leibniz’s monads have successive perceptions, while necessary truths and the divine ground have a different relation to temporal change. This helps clarify SMM/DTT’s distinction between generated succession and the status of its 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 - C345Mind and metaphysics
Spiritual time and eternity: SMM/DTT and Spinoza’s substance monism
Spinoza’s eternity is not simply unlimited duration. This gives SMM/DTT a precise comparison for the difference between a source’s ontological priority and an endless series of generated moments. 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 - C346Mind and metaphysics
Spiritual time and eternity: SMM/DTT and Neutral monism and Russellian monism
Neutral monism concerns the basis of mental and physical descriptions; it need not posit an eternal ground or a spiritual mode of time. 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 - C347Mind and metaphysics
Spiritual time and eternity: SMM/DTT and Integrated information theory
IIT analyzes an experience through a specified causal structure and temporal grain. It does not establish a metaphysical eternity beyond succession. 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 - C348Mind and metaphysics
Spiritual time and eternity: SMM/DTT and Panpsychism and cosmopsychism
Cosmopsychism may place local temporal experiences within a wider experiential whole, but a cosmic subject need not be timeless. It could possess its own succession, or its relation to time could be left unspecified. 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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