Contemporary cosmopsychism—including priority cosmopsychism (Shani; Nagasawa and Wager) and Bernardo Kastrup's analytic idealism—treats the cosmic subject as prior and actual, and so inherits the decombination problem: How does one complete cosmic consciousness divide into many private subjects? This essay argues that the difficulty stems from a tacit temporal assumption—that the One precedes...
Contemporary cosmopsychism—including priority cosmopsychism (Shani; Nagasawa and Wager) and Bernardo Kastrup's analytic idealism—treats the cosmic subject as prior and actual, and so inherits the decombination problem: how does one complete cosmic consciousness divide into many private subjects? This essay traces the difficulty to a tacit temporal assumption—that the One precedes the many—and...