Definition of Pluriverse

What is Pluriverse?

Pluriverse: from the perspective of a reductivist science, it is argued that one can have “a view from nowhere” – that one can see all reality – the universe – explicitly for “what it is” objectively. 

But to have an experience of any form is to be an enactive being who is situated such that they are of a co-emergent worlding. An enactive affordance-based approach to reality is not universal – it is not a meeting of the universe. We directly experience not the uni-verse (a singular objective reality underlying all experience) but a pluri-verse — a dynamic, co-creative, intra-looping multiplicity of qualitatively distinct real worlds. One environment, many worlds. The pluriverse is not relativism (everyone has their own subjective view); it is a positive ontological claim: many ontologically distinct worlds are simultaneously real, produced from the bottom up by the relational entanglements of differing beings. 

Nor is the pluriverse simply a set of differing views on one underlying reality – for our actions change the environment – and change other beings. We are co-creators – co-transformers of “interests in common which are not the same interests” (Isabelle Stengers)

See also: Common Interests, Transjective, Affordances, Assemblage, Enaction