Reality as a Structured Process II: Experience, Consciousness, and the Space of Possibilities
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) May 22, 2026 Hans-Joachim Rudolph
Reality is not merely factual actuality but a structured open process where actuality emerges from potentiality without eliminating it. Observability is an epistemic mode of disclosure within a richer physical organization, not an ontological boundary. Consciousness arises where openness, selective stabilization, resonance, integration, self-reference, and centering generate a stable inner domain; it is neither a universal property nor a miraculous emergence. Reality may be intrinsically open to experience without being experiential at its most basic level. Meditative and spiritual experiences can be profound and transformative but do not establish final metaphysical ontology; the structure of experience is not automatically the structure of reality. Open realism treats observability, consciousness, healing, and spiritual meaning as modes of disclosure within possibility space.