Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 21, 2026
Etienne Mourot-Ginestiere
A new metaphysical position, serial and liminal cosmopsychism, proposes that at any instant only a single point of consciousness exists—the 'lit point'—while other points are distributed across time and preserved as 'inflections' in a pre-subjective field. This reverses standard cosmopsychism, which treats the cosmic subject as a prior, complete unity that then divides into many private subjects, a move that faces the decombination problem. The new view dissolves both the decombination problem and the synchronic combination problem by asserting there is never more than one subject to unify. The cosmic One becomes an inexperienceable topology, never lived as a totality.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 20, 2026
Etienne Mourot-Ginestiere
The decombination problem—how a single cosmic consciousness splits into many private subjects—plagues contemporary cosmopsychism, which treats the unified mind as primary. This essay argues that the problem arises from assuming the One precedes the many. Reversing that assumption yields emergent cosmopsychism, where unified consciousness is not the origin but the limit toward which many fragments converge. This view dissolves the decombination problem by making plural subjects basic, but re-introduces the combination problem as a diachronic, limit-directed convergence, which avoids the subject-summing objection. The position is distinguished from Kastrup's dissociationism, placed in a process lineage (Whitehead, Schelling, Teilhard), and assessed by generative rather than falsificationist criteria.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 20, 2026
Etienne Mourot-Ginestiere
A philosophical essay argues that the 'decombination problem' in cosmopsychism—how one cosmic consciousness divides into many private subjects—stems from assuming the One precedes the many. Reversing this, the essay proposes unified consciousness is not the ground but the limit toward which a plurality of fragments converges, dissolving decombination because plural subjects are basic. It generalizes this reversal: a completed single global One is incoherent, and unity is a recurrent local event at qualitative thresholds, with convergence being diachronic and scale-invariant. The view is distinguished from dissociationism and offered as a research programme.