This glossary explains several terms that recur throughout Wide Open Windows.
The definitions are not intended as final or universally applicable. They describe how these terms are presently used within this particular investigation.
Configuration
A particular arrangement of perception, language, memory, expectation, emotion, bodily condition and cultural understanding through which experience takes shape.
A configuration is not merely an opinion about the world. It helps determine what can appear, what matters, and what is experienced as real.
Diorama
A bounded world that appears complete from within its own perspective.
A diorama does not necessarily deceive. It presents a coherent field of experience while leaving the conditions of its construction partly outside view.
Dioramic Approach
The approach developed within Wide Open Windows for examining experiential worlds without immediately reducing them to a single explanation or hierarchy.
It involves entering perspectives, comparing them, observing their structure and noticing how each opens some possibilities while closing others.
Experience
Whatever appears, in whatever form: sensations, perceptions, thoughts, memories, emotions, dreams, absences, questions and worlds.
Wide Open Windows begins with experience because every theory, belief and claim about reality also appears within experience.
Investigation
A sustained exploration of a question, phenomenon or field of experience.
An investigation may include essays, images, personal observations, philosophical reflections and scientific ideas. It need not conclude with an answer.
Lifeworld
The world as it is lived rather than as it is described from an imagined position outside experience.
A lifeworld includes not only what is perceived, but also what is assumed, remembered, feared, desired and taken for granted.
Lived Experience
Experience as it is actually undergone from within a particular life, body, history and situation.
It is not raw material waiting to be interpreted later. Interpretation, meaning and context are already involved in how experience appears.
Nonduality
A family of experiences, interpretations and traditions in which the usual division between self and world, observer and observed, or subject and object is weakened or absent.
Within Wide Open Windows, nonduality is treated as one possible configuration of experience rather than as the final truth behind every other world.
Perspective
A situated way in which something becomes visible and meaningful.
Every perspective reveals certain relations and conceals others. No perspective provides a complete view from nowhere.
Publication
A relatively complete expression of part of the investigation, such as a book, essay, visual work or digital project.
Publications may stand independently, but none is regarded as the definitive statement of Wide Open Windows.
Reality
That which is experienced or understood as actually existing.
Wide Open Windows does not begin by deciding what reality ultimately is. It investigates how particular things, worlds and interpretations come to appear real.
Rhizome
The network of relationships connecting the windows of Wide Open Windows.
Unlike a fixed hierarchy, the Rhizome allows multiple entrances and routes. A page may belong to a broader context, lead to more specific subjects, or connect sideways to apparently distant themes.
Window
A page, text, image or other opening through which part of the investigation can be entered.
Every window frames what becomes visible. It reveals something while inevitably leaving something else outside the frame.
World
A coherent field of experience in which things, events, identities and possibilities acquire meaning.
A world is more than a collection of objects. It includes the relationships, expectations and distinctions through which those objects can appear at all.
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