Monism, Multiplicity, Corporeality

Though Socrates is often considered to introduce Reflection into Philosophy, Parmenides' formulation that Thought and its Object are one and the same suggests that reflection on his own Mental processes is a factor in his Monism.  Now, details of his concept of Mind, other than an allusion to the Logos are sparse, but from his The One principle, it can be inferred that Thought, too, is, for him, absolutely simple.  Hence, he has abstracted it from its organic functions, including directing and coordinating motor activities, and organizing sensory data.  Accordingly, the abstraction by which Unity and Multiplicity are severed in his Monism perhaps originates in Reflection.  Likewise, Bergson's Monism develops from an examination of a flux of inner states that are primarily feelings, and then decisively distinguishes Pure Memory from Motor Memory.  The underlying aim of the traditional severing of Multiplicity from Unity thereby becomes explicit--escape from Corporeality, a Philosophical motive that has been so pervasive that even Spinoza briefly betrays his Parallelism to accommodate the possibility.