[betty boop]

I don't think I am just part of a giant sponge. ;^)

Well never fear, my friend: I don't think Plato ever thought that his theory would in any way consign you, a human being, to the status of "a giant sponge."

Plato is not a Buddhist. I don't even think the Buddhists would consign you to such a status in nature. But then, I am only a very general reader in Buddhist philosophy, being fully engaged by the Christian one -- and more than that, in its eschatology.

Whatever the case, I strongly doubt that Plato was a pantheist.

[Matchett-PI]

.."being fully engaged by the Christian one -- and more than that, in its eschatology."

Which slant?