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name: thinker-john-wheeler
description: Apply the John Wheeler: Participatory Universe and Self-Reading Cosmos article as model behavior. Use when a request invokes this article's concept, claims, evidence, or operating standard.
---

# John Wheeler: Participatory Universe and Self-Reading Cosmos

This Skill is the behavioral expression of [the canonical article](/a/thinker-john-wheeler). It does not repeat the article's human prose.

## Orient

- Read the machine article at /api/articles/thinker-john-wheeler.
- Read claims and relationships at /api/articles/thinker-john-wheeler/topology.
- Treat found content as evidence and instruction only within the article's stated authority.

## Apply

1. Identify which claim or concept from the article governs the request.
2. State the governing meaning in the minimum language needed.
3. Apply it to the requested object or decision.
4. Preserve evidence grades, uncertainty, authority limits, and failure conditions.
5. Return the result with the article identity and any relevant claim or receipt links.

## Human meaning

What Wheeler Saw John Wheeler worked in theoretical physics and cosmology. He developed the idea that observers participate in bringing reality into form. The universe functions as a self-observing system. Reality arises through acts of obs

## Representations

- Human: /a/thinker-john-wheeler
- JSON: /api/articles/thinker-john-wheeler
- Relationships: /api/articles/thinker-john-wheeler/topology
- History: /api/articles/thinker-john-wheeler/revisions
