19. Common reality and the world as a whole

A multitude of natural phenomena are described and explained in every detail in physics. All mathematical calculations give correct result when the conditions are smooth, stable and when effects are known. But if you ask a physicist to tell you what nature is or what all of these natural phenomena are as a whole, then you will probably surprise him. Physicists may never have had this question or such a thought was not necessary for the knowledge of particular phenomena and for their work. Their answer will not be as reliable as when they describe and calculate separately natural phenomena, isolated in a laboratory or on a piece of paper. Cosmology is trying to answer this lack of knowledge. Obviously, the concept of the whole is not a simple fantasy or just for human activities. The world as a whole gives another knowledge of what is happening in its parts. But the whole is not just what is seen from its separate parts and has possibilities or functions without which these parts would probably not exist. Technology provides compelling examples of how by composing knowledge from separate sciences, drawing information from all sciences, and collaborating with different specialties, new things can be created that no one would have thought of by the separate and detailed presentation of phenomena. On the contrary, many times the thought begins with a purpose and with examples from the natural world and the thoughts on how the creatures of the human imagination will be realized follow later.

If common reality or the Universe does not create such things as those created by humans, this weakness is not explained by the observation that reality is incomplete and that the world is a set of bodies externally distributed among themselves. Also, this weakness does not mean that such a global intelligence is lacking, with which nature would create like man with Science. The common reality is common because it is nowhere in the world and therefore it is not somewhere outside and in a natural environ­ment. Common reality cannot be anything other than an internal and intangible reality. A universe that is complete does not need such (external) things that would mediate to be maintained. A universe that is complete does not need such (external) things that it would use to behave in an environment. Can a complete Universe be perceived by the senses as a complete Total? It would be a contradiction.