From The One and the Many to Configurations of Possibility
Theology projects metaphysics onto physics: unity and plurality, one and many, ultimate order and diversity. Physics inherits this, treating systems as fundamentally singular or fundamental entities as ultimate.
Relationally, unity and plurality are outcomes of relational alignment. “The One” is a local convergence of actualisations; “the Many” are the divergent possibilities that persist alongside it. Neither is primary. Both emerge from the interplay of potential and actual.
Multiplicity is not chaos; unity is not transcendence. Both are patterns of relation, contingent and perspectival, actualised in context.
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