This part draws together the threads from the preceding chapters and places them within a broader scientific and philosophical perspective. The purpose is not primarily to introduce new mechanisms, but to examine what consequences the Mechanism has for how we understand science, consciousness, observation and reality as a whole.

Through the preceding parts, a coherent model has gradually been built up: from the first differentiations within KNOWING, via the Experience Circle, Attractor Dynamics and the structure of manifestation, to the phenomena of physics, biological organisation and cosmological development. If this model is correct, it follows necessarily that several of the fundamental dividing lines that characterise modern thought must be reconsidered.

The distinction between subject and object, between observer and observed, between physics and consciousness, between natural science and phenomenology, becomes less absolute than it is usually presented. The phenomena do not disappear. They acquire a different placement within the ontological structure.

This does not mean that established scientific results are discarded. On the contrary. The Mechanism presupposes that the observations are correct. What is challenged is the explanatory level within which they are interpreted. Where modern science usually begins with matter and attempts to explain experience, the ES/HL theory begins with experience and attempts to explain matter. Many of the classical problems within physics, cosmology, consciousness research and philosophy thus appear in a new light.

The points that follow examine what happens when this perspective is followed through to its conclusion. What role does science acquire? How can subjective experience and objective observation be understood within the same framework? What does it mean to say that reality is relational? And what consequences follow if the universe, in its deepest nature, is a continuous process of observation, experience and self-understanding?

These are no longer primarily questions of physics or cosmology. They are questions of what reality is.

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