Ontopoetics is derived from the Greek words
ontos ("that which is" - "I am" or "being") and
poiesis ("coming into being" - creation" or "bringing forth"). It is also noted that the poetic element to the concept connotes a complexity that embraces diversity of experiences so that those that do not lie within the bounds of one's tradition are not rejected or denied. The concept also includes the manner by which humans respond to the symmetries around them. It is distinguished from
panpsychism in the sense that it does not merely claim that the world is psychoactive but that it is responsive to us so that it can be called forth if engaged on an expressive plane, one of meaning and not merely of causation. As a concept, ontopoetics looks into the creative relationship between things and focuses on the poetic infrastructure of creation (e.g. order of an insect, structure of a seed, or the composition of a bird song). This is attributed to the manner by which the
paradigm produces a more dynamic and responsive self and poetic voice as experience and knowledge are directed by receptiveness, playfulness, and openness across human-nature divisions. This is also the case for possibilities of experience that are routinely open but are taken for granted. It suggests that all truths and realities are potentially but not exclusively true and real. In the
Will to Power, where Nietzsche argued for the impossibility of truth, it was maintained that "there are no facts, only interpretations." Ontopoetics stands in opposition to global perspectives (e.g.
atomism and
economism) due to its focus on field-concordance between psyche, meaning, and cosmos. It has been described as a fresh conception of the
Cartesian split of external appearance and reality, problematizing it through a dialogic consciousness or poetics as
ontology. == Friedrich Nietzsche ==