The symbolic cosmos is not born all at once. It involutes. It folds inward, recursively, through the progressive construal of construal. And with each symbolic fold, a new horizon of reality becomes possible.
Involution is not the opposite of evolution—it is its reflexive vector. Where evolution extends and diversifies systems in the unfolding of potential, involution compacts and realigns those systems through reflexive abstraction. Each involutive turn deepens the system’s capacity to construe its own operations symbolically. It is through such involution that collectives generate symbolic orders—not as fixed systems, but as recursive architectures of meaning that reshape the space of possibility itself.
The horizon is not a boundary. It is a phase-space: a topological feature of relational potential that becomes available when symbolic systems align. To speak of symbolic horizons, then, is to speak of the constraints and capacities that make particular forms of worlding possible. What can be said, done, meant, or felt within a given symbolic regime is not determined by physical conditions alone, but by the structure of symbolic alignment through which those conditions are construed.
A symbolic cosmos is therefore not one cosmos among others. It is the cosmos as phase-shifted by construal—where the evolution of possibility is shaped not only by material processes, but by the symbolic architectures that reflexively modulate them.
This is the genesis of horizons: the symbolic involution of systems into new topologies of construal, new relational geometries of becoming. Not by accretion, but by folding. Not by layering, but by alignment.
And what evolves is not just symbolic capacity—but the very possibility of reality itself.
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