Cosmic-Perdurantism.

Perdurantists hold that persons have temporal parts. But which of the objects is conscious—persons, their temporal parts, both? In this paper, I argue that Perdurantists have good metaphysical motivation to believe that, strictly speaking, it is the cosmos and only the cosmos that exhibits conscious...

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Published in:	Australasian Journal of Philosophy Vol. 104; no. 2; pp. 521 - 536
Main Author:	Longenecker, Michael Tze-Sung
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Jun2026
Subjects:	Consciousness Metaphysics Microcosm & macrocosm Awareness Materialism Mass (Physics)
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