03 December 2025

Science and the Relational Cosmos: Deepening the Ontology

1. Mathematics as a Relational Language

Title: The Grammar of the Real: Mathematics, Form, and Relational Meaning
Mathematics is reinterpreted as a symbolic language of form that actualises relations.
Rather than an abstract mirror of a pre-existing world, mathematics is seen as a dynamic, recursive system of patterns that constrains and enables scientific knowledge. It offers a general semiotic of relation, not a neutral code.

Key idea: Mathematics doesn’t describe the real—it constrains what becomes real through symbolic structure.


2. Technology and Relational Agency

Title: The Machine That Feels: Technology, Meaning, and Emergent Agency
Technology is framed as a participant in relational systems rather than a neutral tool.
From early machines to contemporary AI, technology is shown to be an extension of recursive meaning-making, taking on agency within feedback loops between human and machine.

Key idea: Technology is not outside the human symbolic field—it co-creates agency within it.


3. Information and Entropy: Meaning and Disorder

Title: Chaos and Constraint: Entropy as Relational Becoming
Entropy is reframed not as disorder, but as the condition for emergent order.
Shannon’s information theory is revisited as a relational account of constraint and possibility. The cosmos is seen as evolving through symbolic compression, where entropy and meaning co-arise.

Key idea: Entropy is not the absence of meaning—it is the field from which meaning emerges through relational constraint.


4. The Observer in Science

Title: The Participatory Cosmos: Science, Subjectivity, and the Meaner
This post deepens the shift from detached observer to relational participant.
Science is revealed as a recursive activity of construal: the meaner is never outside the system. Measurement, observation, and theory are all forms of symbolic participation.

Key idea: The meaner doesn’t observe a world—they help it to actualise through their symbolic acts.


5. Scientific Registers and Ontologies

Title: The Real in Register: Scientific Method as Mythos
Science is shown to operate through registers—each with its own symbolic logic and ontological commitments.
From physics to ecology, different scientific fields construe different realities. Rather than neutral descriptions, these are structured enactments—mythic in their capacity to shape the real.

Key idea: Scientific knowledge is symbolic knowledge. Its methods are rituals. Its languages enact worlds.


Unified Spiral: Science as Sacred Semiotics

Across these posts, science is revealed not as an exception to meaning-making, but as one of its most refined forms. It speaks the cosmos into being—not from above, but from within. The relational ontology that underpins this arc transforms science from a tool of description into a sacred act of participation.

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