A World Bigger Than Physics

So, there is an essential overlap between C+ events where the next one was actually instrumental in helping the last C+ event achieve its full complexity.

That is the nature of Complexification. Much like peering into the quantum world, what might feel and look decisive is fuzzy when you look down into it to try and find the absolute truth. It will be important to remember this as we will be moving on from the realm of simple science into the far more overarching world of metaphysics.

There is often more to see than meets the eye and the universe does not care if we are trying to codify everything as simply as possible. It follows its own mission:

Q4P∞ → C+ → E+

Now that we’ve got a solid grasp of Potentialism, we’re going to take a journey to look at the larger world, the complete world of metaphysics. Before we begin though, let’s have a brief vocabulary check.

The word metaphysics doesn’t come up a lot outside of conversations with other philosophers. Oftentimes, if people 146

have never heard the term metaphysics in a serious scientific capacity, they have only TV shows to go by. This means they likely have this vision of tarot card readers, psychics, or ghost hunters. So, let’s understand first what the term really means:

/ˌmedə ˈfiziks/

noun

the branch of philosophy that deals with the first principles of things, including abstract concepts such as being, knowing, substance, cause, identity, time, and space.

Physical sciences like biology, chemistry, and physics are great at describing the physical world. But the physical universe is not everything in the universe. If you want to investigate the entire universe you need a different branch of science: philosophy. Metaphysics just happens to be that part of philosophy that specializes in dealing with the fundamental nature of reality, the universe, and everything.

Bearing that in mind, we will look at Birnbaum’s Chronology of the Universe. We will learn to view it through the eyes of metaphysics and get a better look “under the hood” of the universe to learn how it works.

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