**4. Conclusions**

Reductionist science and practices are fit for limited purpose and have indeed resulted in the remarkable technological advances we see in Industry 5.0. However, emerging global patterns underscore the fact that our legacy reductionist science is insufficient to meet the moment. Disturbingly, a confluence of findings from different fields point to the pattern of self-replication in learning. An attention fixated on technical 'problems' creates an existence filled with technical problems. As predicted by Bateson [67], and later documented by O'Neil [68], without a profound educational shift, legacy science and engineering is likely to lead to selfdestruction by extending the power of technology, uninformed by our humanity. Our challenge is to heed Einstein's imperative to adopt the paradigm of holism or face a future fraught with the increasing social, political, environmental dis-ease produced by fragmentation. Not only is holism more aligned with the nature of the universe, it more accurately describes the dynamically complex, sociotechnical realities that engineers work with. Its methods, drawing from existing social science praxes, are also more aligned in their assumptions and purpose to the profession of engineering. When we consider what a holistic engineering education might involve, we recognize that we can only see dimly. We have offered a working model organized around a recursive consideration of *Energetics, Action in fields, Flow, Measurement* and *Aliveness.* This proposed learning model, appropriate to our

particular context, is only one of many incarnations of engineering education that we would expect to take form in a model of holism. There is a great deal of work to be done, yet we know that an engineering education for health/wholeness will itself honor the whole of ourselves and our societies. It will include reductionist science yet be attentive to the quality of relationships, structures and fields that condition what is learned. At minimum, an engineering education from holism will embrace our whole humanity, recovering our intrinsic motion toward beauty, joy, fairness and compassion—our vital humanizing qualities that are missing in our legacy engineering education.
