“Holophores are the fundamental elements underlying human experience, meaning, and ideas. One of them is the identity/meaning of ‘The Universe’. Another is The Sun. Another is The World. Over historical time, the meanings associated with these fundamental identities underwent a process of impoverishment, where they lost crucial content and associations as human minds traveled away from direct participation in Nature, into a state where a crude representation was substituted for what was, previously, a complex and intricately connotated identity.

But it is possible to ‘return domains of meaning’ to our existing relationships with the entities that the words ‘The Universe’ refer to. Another holophore is ‘animal’; whatever you believe animals are, mean, or do… informs everything else you are capable of thinking or believing, since, for humans… we are animals and the other animals are mirrors through which we can learn about ourselves.

An example of a holophore ‘correction’ is ‘What are organisms?’ Most humans think ‘organisms are from Earth’. This can’t be right. So another way to think about them is as a unique mode of timespace. In this view, every form and individual organism is a mode of timespace that expresses the character of timespace (and, transforms time itself, locally and distributively). So organisms can be understood both as ‘the living face of timespace) and ‘makers of time’ in that they invent new modes and relational dimensions of time by existing, developing and relating with the fundamental context of being. This makes them ‘organs of our extended body/mind’, rather than ‘creatures’ as is the common view/idea.”

— an anonymous informant