Monism, Dualism, and more.
My comment:
I think that monism and pluralism (which includes dualism) are both valid concepts — you just need to define them correctly. Everything that can be comprehended by our mind and makes logical/mathematical sense (excluding nonsense) is part of our world and therefore part of monism. There may exist other realities, which would make reality plural, but none of them can interact with each other — neither through our logic or mathematics, nor through physical experiments. As soon as there is any connection, it becomes part of our world.
If you wish to define pluralism differently, you could take as a basis for the separation of realities a level that is impossible for us to access, such as the Planck scale. In that case, we could imagine a mathematics that is correct in theory and gives rise to a completely different world — one capable of creating another universe, with life or without it. However, this mathematics could not interact with our own, because it would be incompatible and would produce nonsense in any attempt to merge the two.
For example, consider a multipolar mathematics with more than two signs: not just negative and positive, but A, B, and C.
From random quantum fluctuations, such a reality could emerge. Perhaps there is even a mathematical reality in which quantum foam has an inherent order, rather than being perceived as random.
This may seem contradictory. The different worlds are possible in our minds and appearing real, and thus part of monism. In fact not, because they are separated by physical reality, by the distinction between things we can create in our world and things we cannot, even if they are theoretically and logically consistent. Those mathematical rules describing possible worlds belong to different realities that are not physically accessible to us in any measurable way.
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Discussion #1 with Amahury Jafet Lopez Diaz, Carlos Gershenson-Garcia, and Richard Watson
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A brief argument and research agenda on Platonic Space. Michael Levin.
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Endogenous Bioelectrical Networks — an interface to somatic intelligence. Michael Levin.
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From messy genes to immortality, bioelectricity as memory medium, cognitive glue, and more. Michael Levin.
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