Transductive Universe(s): Big History reading through ‘Transductive Metaphysics’ lens

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This paper challenges the dominant metaphysical paradigm of substance, which has long framed reality as an assembly of static objects governed by external, transcendent laws.1 In its place, it proposes a process-relational ontology where "becoming" is understood as more fundamental than "being".1 The central thesis is that the universe, in its entirety from the Big Bang to the present technological age, can be comprehended as a single, continuous, and radically temporal process of ontogenesis—the genesis of being itself. Every emergent phenomenon, from spacetime and elementary particles to life, consciousness, and culture, is an event within this singular, immanent unfolding.