Possibility is not infinite in the abstract. It is always bounded, shaped, oriented. Every cosmos — whether mythic, theological, scientific, or digital — sketches a horizon of the possible: a limit within which actuality can unfold, and beyond which only the unthinkable or unsayable lies.
These horizons are not fixed. They shift as collectives construe new ways of worlding. The mythic cosmos bounded possibility with gods, spirits, and cycles of return. Theology reoriented the horizon around divine creation and final judgment. Science redrew it with physical laws, constants, and equations. Each horizon constrains, but also enables, shaping what can be seen, said, and done.
Horizons function both as edges and openings. They mark limits — what lies outside is excluded, impossible, forbidden. Yet they also orient collective imagination, giving direction, scaffolding novelty, defining the stage upon which new actualisations can appear.
From a relational perspective, horizons are themselves actualisations of possibility. They are perspectival cuts: constraints that stabilise worlds but never totalise them. Every horizon can be displaced, refigured, or reframed as the field of relation shifts. What was once impossible may enter possibility; what was once certain may dissolve into contingency.
Cosmos is thus not a single horizon but a shifting weave of horizons: overlapping, contesting, proliferating. To live within a cosmos is to inhabit these limits, to navigate their openings, and to participate in the ongoing redrawing of possibility’s edge.
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