What does it mean for construal to align?
Not simply that multiple construals agree, nor that they are coordinated in space or time. Alignment is a relational phenomenon: a resonance among symbolic systems that allows them to phase together, enabling higher-order construals to emerge.
In this sense, alignment is not a social process imposed from without, but a symbolic one emergent from within. It is the condition under which collectives can begin to reflexively construe their own construals—not only as shared, but as structured, stable, and meaningful in new ways. Through alignment, construal is no longer just individual or contingent: it becomes collective, systematic, and generative.
Such alignment creates the possibility of a symbolic cosmos. When construals align, they do not merely echo each other; they open a symbolic topology in which new kinds of reality can be construed. This is the phase-space of worldmaking—not in the sense of projecting a fiction or constructing an illusion, but in the sense that reality itself becomes phase-shifted through symbolic resonance.
Worlds are not built from scratch. They are unfolded from within the symbolic potentials of aligned construal. This unfolding is not deterministic: it is emergent, contingent, and reflexive. And each world is not an object among others, but a regime of construal that modulates what can be meant, known, felt, or done.
The symbolic cosmos is thus a multiplicity of horizons sustained by alignment. Not one world, but many—not because of relativism, but because of the reflexive plasticity of symbolic systems. Each alignment opens a topology of meaning, a structured possibility space through which a world may be construed.
This is how alignment becomes worldmaking: not by imposing order, but by sustaining symbolic resonance. Not by asserting universals, but by enabling shared construals to phase into new symbolic realities.
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