Having traced the horizons, structures, and contemporary stakes of possibility, we can now reframe possibility relationally. Possibility is not a pre-given set of options, nor a static container waiting to be filled. It emerges through relations — between agents, collectives, symbolic systems, technologies, and the cosmos itself.
Key features of a relational cosmos of possibility:
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Perspectival Actualisation — Each actualisation arises from a relational cut between potential and realised; possibility is always experienced and enacted from a perspective.
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Co-Individuation — Individuals and collectives actualise potential together, mutually shaping the field of possibility.
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Dynamic Horizons — Boundaries of the possible shift as relational fields evolve, never fixed, always generative.
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Embedded Constraints and Enablements — Structures — technological, political, cultural — orient and channel potential without fully determining it.
This view dissolves the illusion of absolute possibility and foregrounds the interdependence of being and becoming. The cosmos of possibility is not merely a landscape of outcomes but a weaving of relational fields, horizons, and actualisations, constantly evolving as new cuts in the field of potential emerge.
Understanding possibility in this way equips us to navigate the contemporary world more faithfully: we see that what can be done, imagined, or realised is always a product of relational, perspectival, and co-individuated dynamics.
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