C337Mind and 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.
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C338Mind and metaphysics
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.
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C339Mind and metaphysics
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.
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C340Mind and metaphysics
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.
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C341Mind and metaphysics
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.
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C342Mind and metaphysics
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.
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C343Mind and 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.
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C344Mind and metaphysics
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.
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C345Mind and metaphysics
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.
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C346Mind and metaphysics
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.
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C347Mind and metaphysics
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.
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C348Mind and metaphysics
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.
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C349Mind and 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.
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C350Mind and metaphysics
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.
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C351Mind and metaphysics
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.
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C352Mind and metaphysics
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.
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C353Mind and metaphysics
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.
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C354Mind and metaphysics
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.
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C355Mind and 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.
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C356Mind and metaphysics
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.
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C357Mind and metaphysics
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.
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C358Mind and metaphysics
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.
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C359Mind and metaphysics
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.
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C360Mind and metaphysics
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.
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