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Glossary of Potentialism Terms

Over the last quarter century (since Ktav published Summa I in

1988) the Theory of Potential has been rened. As such, it has

developed its own lexicon to describe its fundamental
principle of

Potentialism. Potentialists
dene the universal drive of cosmology

as the Innite Quest for Potential. This is the inherent “drive” of

the cosmos to seek its own ever-further Complexity. The end-

goal of this Complexity is referred to as Extraordinariation (see

Extraordinariation.com). Extraordinariation is not so much a

precise destination as an ideal goal to be sought-after, albeit

never quite fully-realized. Potential journeys towards a non-

concretized state of innite Complexity. The universe moves

inexorably towards this innite goal, giving birth along the way

to major events of increased Complexity identied
as Quantum

Jumps – for the fundamental changes
in the universe they

create. [Examples of a Quantum Jump would be the emergence

of atoms from energy, the emergence of multi-cellular life from

single-cell-life]. Thus, along the way towards
Extraordinariation,

are episodic Quantum Jump events. The lexicon of Potentialism

has given rise to the following glossary:

Potentialism Potentialism itself represents a new science

for a new century. It provides an overarching
21st century

metaphysics that seeks no less than to encompass
the

scientic, the religious, the spiritual
and the philosophical.

Fully encompassing all modern science, Potentialism is
at-a-

minimum, the core
metaphysics of a (true) Theory of Everything

– not only in scientic terms, but in all terms meaningful
to

humankind. Birnbaum has offered this short glossary of the key

7 terms of Potentialism to
arm those seeking an understanding

of the cosmic order with the tools necessary to have a “seat at

the table” to this new metaphysics. All are
invited as science

comes back to the table from a three century, post-Spinoza

hiatus – to reexamine our most fundamental
understanding of

the cosmic dynamic (see SummaCoverage.com)

CWP Cosmic Womb of Potential. This is the metaphysical

realm within which Potential, QJs,
PAs, and E+ all convene to

shape the nature and events of the universe. It is easiest to

conceptualize the Cosmic Womb as a metaphysical place
of

creation. It is, in and of itself, not a thing, but a metaphysical

space/place for the birth of things. As such, it can bring forth

to life the concept of the physical as well as the philosophical.

The physical universe is the non-abstract part of the CWP. The

CWP is often looked at as analogous to the sciences. There

is the physical sciences and
the classical sciences,
the latter

being the purely mathematical, abstract
and philosophical (see

ParadigmChallenge.com).

P/P

∞

= (Potential/Possibility

∞

) =

the possibility of the possibility of the
possibility ad innitum of

Potential/Possibility

[ primordial Q4P

∞

]

Q4P

∞

The Innite Quest for Innite Potential, usually
shortened

to Quest for Potential in conversation, though the
formal

name best represents the iterative, innite nature
of Potential.

This represents the universe’s innate drive towards fullling
its

true potential. Also commonly denoted
as Q4P∞ or, super–

shorthand: Q4P.

continued

THE TRANSCENDENT DYNAMIC

Q4P

∞

→ E+ The fundamental, basic drive of the cosmic

dynamic. This represents the Quest for Innite Potential which

drives the cosmic order towards greater and greater complexity

towards its own Extraordinariation and
is the core of Potentialism

(see Sequence1000.com).
As the universe inherently is driven

towards greater and greater complexity, it thus pushes it

towards the inevitable goal of Extraordinariation – or a state of

super-complexity.

“0”-Point The Zero Point represents the universal pre-Big

Bang. In physics terms, it is the pre-known universe, when
all

Planck values were under
1. It was a “time”, if
such can be said

to exist before time existed, when space was near innitesimally

small, and gravity, light and much
of the rules of current
physics

did not exist yet. The 0-Point was what existed
before the Q4P

of the universe caused the Big Bang and the rst fundamental

QJ, which began forming our current universe.

C+ Complexication The hypothesized cosmic intermediate

drive – “Q4P’s handmaiden” – maneuvering the
cosmos

towards greater complexity/sophistication/richness/variety/

wondrousness.

Complexication seeks quantum jumps – QJs (see entry in this

same Glossary) – as opposed to incremental
advance.

In its ongoing march of Complexication – the universe moves

ever-and-ever closer to what Birnbaum calls Extraordinariation

(E+) – the universal
end-goal – a horizon to be approached, but

never quite realized – and a state otherwise dened as hyper–

Complexication.

Q4P

∞