Wholeness

Wholeness is not a static description of reality but a continuous unfolding process, shaping and connecting reality at every level​. It is hinted at in our everyday lives, most visible in our sense of awe. A forest is not just a collection of trees—it is an ecosystem, where life intertwines in subtle balance. A symphony is more than an ensemble of sound, but the feeling and experience of a composition greater than the individual notes. 

Wholeness is also about taking an integrative approach toward what the future of science could look like, recognizing the achievement of modern science as well as the questions that speak to metaphysics. At the Science and Philosophy Institute, we investigate how philosophy can become part of the scientific methodology to address fundamental questions. In our paper "Wholeness in Foundational Cosmology", we take wholeness as the intrinsic nature of the universe and its fundamental principle.

In cosmology, wholeness invites us to look beyond reductionist views that isolate the universe into separate parts. Instead, it offers a vision where space, time, and physical structures emerge from an underlying relational order—a field of deep coherence that gives rise to reality as we know it. For scientifically committed readers, we introduce in our paper a framework for wholeness in foundational cosmology, proposing that the universe functions as a deeply ordered, relational system. Recent advances in fundamental physics suggest that spacetime may emerge from non-spatiotemporal foundations, motivating us to further consider how the role of us as conscious observers may integrate within this context. Specifically, we examine the interrelation between conscious observers, their phenomenological experiences, and an underlying non-spatiotemporal relational information structure that evolves through an unfolding order.