Pluralism, on the other hand, taking perceptual experience at its face-value, is free from all these difficulties. It protests against working our ideas in a vacuum made of conceptual abstractions. Monism denies novelty. Monism's tough stand here, in new quantum light appears important. Without this insistence of a holistic included-middle, monism appears utterly inutile as a philosophy.
Pluralism fixes monism's difficulties.
Isoflux attractors may be 'aware' of each other and latch into actual quantons. But pluralism, accepting a universe unfinished, with doors and windows open to possibilities uncontrollable in advance, gives us less religious certainty than monism, with its absolutely closed-in world . Pluralism, on the other hand, is neither optimistic nor pessimistic, but melioristic, rather. The world, it thinks, may be saved, on condition that its parts shall do their best. But shipwreck in detail, or even on the whole, is among the open possibilities.