Omheic
Omheic is a fictional term used in speculative philosophy, worldbuilding, and critical theory to describe a holistic framework that integrates environmental, cognitive, social, and temporal dimensions into a single interpretive field. The term functions as a conceptual tool rather than a fixed doctrine, and its precise meaning varies among authors and contexts.
- Holistic integration: multiple domains influence one another within a shared field.
- Emergence: system-level properties arise from interactions rather than from any single component.
- Dynamicity: nonlinearity, feedback loops, and time-scale coupling shape outcomes.
- Ethical orientation: emphasizes responsibility to ecosystems and communities within the field.
- Methodological flexibility: applicable to analysis, design, and storytelling alike.
Because Omheic is not standardized, it appears in academic essays, game design guides, and fiction to facilitate
- Worldbuilding: helps craft settings where geography, culture, and history coherently influence one another.
- Philosophy and criticism: serves as a lens for interdisciplinarity and integrated analysis.
- Design and urban planning: guides approaches that account for ecological, social, and temporal factors together.
- Narrative media: informs plot structure by tying character, place, and time into a connected system.
Omheic draws on holism, systems theory, and ecocriticism while emphasizing experiential and temporal integration, which can
See also: Holism, Systems theory, Ecocriticism, Worldbuilding
Note: This article describes Omheic as a speculative or fictional concept; it is not presented as