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 →- C349Mind and metaphysics
Ibn Arabi and metaphysical cosmology: SMM/DTT and Ibn Arabi’s metaphysics
Comparing SMM/DTT with Ibn Arabi here is a comparison between a historical metaphysical vision and a modern reconstruction inspired by it. The shared concern is how unity gives rise to differentiated manifestation while remaining the ground of its coherence. 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 - C350Mind and metaphysics
Ibn Arabi and metaphysical cosmology: SMM/DTT and Leibniz’s Monadology
Ibn Arabi’s metaphysical cosmology and Leibniz’s monadology both relate a differentiated world to a unifying ground, but their treatments of individuality and divine relation differ. 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 - C351Mind and metaphysics
Ibn Arabi and metaphysical cosmology: SMM/DTT and Spinoza’s substance monism
Ibn Arabi-inspired SMM and Spinoza’s monism both challenge the independence of finite things, but their theological and metaphysical vocabularies should not be flattened into one doctrine. 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 - C352Mind and metaphysics
Ibn Arabi and metaphysical cosmology: SMM/DTT and Neutral monism and Russellian monism
Neutral monism offers a common basis for mental and physical description without requiring the theological commitments of Ibn Arabi’s cosmology. SMM/DTT inherits a richer metaphysical setting and then seeks a formal source architecture. 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 - C353Mind and metaphysics
Ibn Arabi and metaphysical cosmology: SMM/DTT and Integrated information theory
IIT begins with an account of experience and proposes a formal identification with intrinsic causal structure. Ibn Arabi-inspired SMM begins with a metaphysical account of source and manifestation, then develops a generative programme. 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 - C354Mind and metaphysics
Ibn Arabi and metaphysical cosmology: SMM/DTT and Panpsychism and cosmopsychism
Cosmopsychism supplies a contemporary vocabulary for unity of experiential ground and diversity of local minds, making it a natural comparison for SMM’s Ibn Arabi-inspired cosmology. 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 - C355Mind and metaphysics
Observer participation and intersubjectivity: SMM/DTT and Ibn Arabi’s metaphysics
Ibn Arabi’s attention to the conditions under which reality is known gives observer participation a richer meaning than physical disturbance alone. SMM/DTT can connect this with the way a completed world is available through particular perspectives. 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 - C356Mind and metaphysics
Observer participation and intersubjectivity: SMM/DTT and Leibniz’s Monadology
Leibniz’s many monads offer distinct perspectives coordinated by pre-established harmony. SMM/DTT instead seeks a common production of perspectives and their mutually consistent records. 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 - C357Mind and metaphysics
Observer participation and intersubjectivity: SMM/DTT and Spinoza’s substance monism
Spinoza’s unified order permits finite perspectives that are partial without being detached from reality. This is a useful partner for SMM/DTT’s account of observer participation: a generated observer can have limited access while belonging to the same world as the observed object. The comparison develops this distinction through a worked example and explains its implications for SMM/DTT’s nested generation and completed records.
Comparative article · 5 min read - C358Mind and metaphysics
Observer participation and intersubjectivity: SMM/DTT and Neutral monism and Russellian monism
Neutral monism can describe observer and observed as different organizations of one basis, reducing the temptation to posit an absolute gulf between mind and 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 - C359Mind and metaphysics
Observer participation and intersubjectivity: SMM/DTT and Integrated information theory
IIT’s intrinsic standpoint and ordinary intersubjective observation concern different access relations. A system’s proposed experience is analyzed from its own causal organization, while an external scientist studies that system through measurements. 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 - C360Mind and metaphysics
Observer participation and intersubjectivity: SMM/DTT and Panpsychism and cosmopsychism
Cosmopsychism faces the problem of distinct first-person perspectives within an experiential whole. SMM/DTT faces the related constructive problem of different observer readouts from 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
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