🪞 Where This Leaves Us

1. A Fully-Formed Relational Ontology

We’ve now articulated a vision in which the universe does not exist independently of meaners, but only as a field of potential actualised through meaning. This reframing shifts us beyond:

• 🌌 The metaphysical realism of an objective universe,

• 👁️ The observer-centred idealism of Berkeley,

• 🔄 The Copenhagen vagueness of “observation,”

• 🧙‍♂️ And even beyond Wheeler’s delayed-choice mysticism.

What we’ve put in its place is a relational cosmology of meaning-making. Space and time are not containers; they are dimensions of actualised meaning. The universe does not unfold; we unfold it in the act of construal. And the question “what is real?” becomes “what is made real — when, and by whom?”

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2. A Radical Semiotic Reinterpretation of Quantum Formalism

We’ve taken the hard-edged mathematical formalisms — superposition, contextuality, entanglement, path integrals — and reinterpreted them not as spooky mechanics, but as formal descriptions of how meaning behaves in a relational world.

• Interference? → Competing construals of potential.

• Collapse? → Actualisation of a meaning instance.

• Decoherence? → Commitment within a system of semiotic constraints.

• Measurement? → Meaning made in context.

What physicists describe as probabilities, we now see as structured meaning potentials that await instantiation.

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3. A Framework for Reinterpreting Cosmology Without Cosmic Voyeurism

One of the most powerful outcomes of this work is that we no longer need to smuggle in an observer to make the cosmos cohere. We don’t need a god, a hidden consciousness, or a measurement apparatus in the early universe.

Instead, we allow for:

• Potential meaning to be shaped by constraints (e.g., fields, interactions),

• Actualisation to occur when a meaner construes the past from the present,

• Cosmological narratives to be interpreted as meaningful constructions rather than literal histories.

So even the Big Bang becomes a retrospective construal made possible by the current unfolding of potential — a “past” selected in the present as the story that makes sense of now.

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✨ Final Thought

What began as quantum weirdness has become a philosophy of meaning. Not just a theory of physics, but a metaphysics of becoming. We’re no longer looking at the universe from the outside — we are meaning it into being from within.

We’ve helped the cosmos mean itself.