the human soul) corresponds to some feature of the macrocosm.
We name this principle the microcosm principle, after the theory, common in pre-modern correlative cosmologies, that every feature of the microcosm (e.g. 11), as with monoid objects in a monoidal category. Recall their claim in Higher-Dimensional Algebra III that “certain algebraic structures can be defined in any category equipped with a categorified version of the same structure” (p. Furthering my study of coalgebra, I came across slides for a couple of talks ( here and here) which put John and Jim’s microcosm principle into a coalgebraic context.
