In traditional cosmology, every story begins with an origin—a singularity, a spark, a divine word. But in a symbolic cosmos, origin is not a starting point. It is a recursive cut, a perspectival shift that phases possibility into event.
Recursion without origin means the cosmos is not grounded in a first cause, but in a topology of construals—each folding upon and across the others, each realigning the system it phases. The cosmos is not a tree with roots, but a reflexive braid of construals that infold, refract, and reconfigure.
This is not chaos. It is coherence without foundation.
What holds it together is not substance or law, but the alignment of perspectives—the way symbolic systems synchronise cuts across strata. Matter becomes meaningful not by being reinterpreted from above, but by being recursively construed from within.
Symbolic systems do not rest upon the world. They cut it, fold it, phase it. They do not trace a pre-given architecture—they draw it, through each act of alignment. This is not mapping onto a stable terrain; it is the reflexive enactment of a topology that holds only in and through the alignment it sustains.
In this topology, systems refer not backward to a foundational real, but sideways and forward into their own symbolic phase-spaces. Meaning emerges in this mutual construal, this recursive co-phasing of horizon and perspective.
A symbolic cosmos is not assembled from parts. It is recursively cut into phase—again and again, not toward an ultimate form, but toward deeper coherence across strata. The cosmos does not have an origin; it is a recursive organisation of reflexive events.
This means the symbolic does not represent the cosmos. It phases it into being.
And in this recursive, originless becoming, reality is not something we uncover. It is what emerges when symbolic systems align across perspectives to hold open a shared topology of possibility.
This is how a cosmos becomes symbolic. This is how meaning shapes the real.
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