Potentialism on the Macro Scale: The Geometry of Potential

Why? Simply because cosmology dealt with the big questions, the existential ones about existence itself. And it covered the most awe-inspiring and sometimes baffling things in existence, from universal expansion to quantum physics and even the strange, more theoretical concepts like string theory. However, there was, to my philosophical mind, something completely missing. It was purely physics-based, well, physics.

Cosmologists were explaining the universe well in terms of physics. Yet, the universe is more than the sum of its parts. That much is obvious in philosophy. You need to look no further than a comparison of the quantitative and qualitative. Consider an orange. Physics can describe one all day quantitatively – what it tastes like, its pH, its molecular makeup. Yet, it cannot tell you the experience of tasting it, the satisfaction of it. Is that any less real? No. So sometimes, to describe something fully, you must talk about more than the purely physical.

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