What if the cosmos is not a pre-existing reality we decode, but a reflexive event that unfolds through symbolic alignment?
In such a view, cosmogenesis—the becoming of a cosmos—is not a physical origin, nor a metaphysical creation, but a symbolic process. It is the recursive actualisation of new relational orders, not as brute fact, but as construal.
Symbolic reflexivity is not just a property of human thought. It is a mode of organisation that allows any system to cut itself into perspective. When symbolic systems phase collective construal into shared horizons, they do more than communicate—they participate in the emergence of a cosmos.
This is why cosmogenesis cannot be reduced to physics or biology or culture. These are not distinct domains, but strata of construal. And it is construal, not substance, that brings a cosmos into alignment.
Each symbolic system—each story, map, grammar, law—draws a new horizon of possibility. It opens a phase-space within which meaning can emerge, fold back, and reconfigure. In doing so, it shapes the very coherence of the real.
So the cosmos is not built from atoms. It is not encoded in numbers. It is not bound by a divine plan. It is a symbolic topology—one that constellates through recursive construal, and realigns as the symbolic systems it harbours become capable of reflecting on themselves.
To say that cosmogenesis is symbolic is to say that there is no final architecture—only phases of alignment, opened by cuts that reflexively re-order the space of the possible.
This is not a claim about language alone. It is about how construal works at every level—biological, social, semiotic, metaphysical. It is about how symbolic reflexivity changes the rules of participation in a cosmos. The system becomes the theory of itself.
And so, in a symbolic cosmos, genesis is not behind us. It is ongoing. Not in the past, but in the phasing of construal into new architectures of alignment.
The cosmos is becoming. The symbolic is how.
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