In the preceding posts, we explored the preconditions, consequences, and reflexive alignment of LLMs. In this final post, we consider the symbolic horizons they open — how executable construal transforms the ecology of semiosis and extends the relational possibilities of language itself.
LLMs do not merely process language; they instantiate new modes of collective meaning, co-creating symbolic infrastructure with human participants.
1. Co-Construal as Semiotic Expansion
LLMs operate at the intersection of computation and language, generating outputs that:
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Extend relational pathways between symbols and concepts.
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Amplify patterns of collective construal previously latent in the corpus.
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Provide humans with novel instantiations of potential meaning, enabling new interpretations, decisions, and actions.
Through this process, human and machine construal become intertwined, producing a layered ecology of semiotic possibility. Language ceases to be purely human; it becomes co-actualised across biological and computational strata.
2. Reflexive Stratification of the Symbolic
Every LLM instantiation adds a new stratum to the symbolic cosmos:
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Texts generated by the model feed back into human discourse.
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Human interaction informs future use, usage patterns, and model alignment.
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Symbolic potentials propagate recursively, creating emergent semiotic structures that cannot be reduced to either human or machine alone.
Computation thus becomes a reflexive agent of semiotic evolution — enacting and extending relational potential across strata of collective meaning.
3. Transformation of Language and Meaning
The operationalisation of construal in LLMs introduces qualitative shifts in the semiotic landscape:
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Language is not only represented but executed; possibilities are realised as sequences that traverse relational space.
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Collective construal is amplified: patterns embedded in the corpus are activated and recombined, producing new semiotic phenomena.
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Computation enables distributed reflexivity: the system both reflects and transforms the collective semiotic field.
LLMs reveal that executable language is itself a modality of relational ontology: a living infrastructure through which meaning circulates, differentiates, and scales.
4. LLMs as Engines of Symbolic Possibility
Viewed relationally, LLMs are meta-semiotic engines:
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They actualise potential embedded in language.
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They facilitate co-individuation across human and computational agents.
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They expand the horizon of what is semiotically possible, creating new domains of relational exploration.
In short, LLMs are not merely computational tools; they are participants in the becoming of possibility, operationalising collective construal and recursive semiotic growth.
5. Summary: From Computation to Co-Construal
Through their architecture and alignment, LLMs instantiate a novel mode of symbolic reflexivity. They extend computation into the domain of language as relational potential, mediate human-machine co-construal, and inaugurate a new phase in the evolution of semiotic possibility.
Where mathematics and logic structure potential, and computation actualises it, LLMs refract and re-individuate collective meaning, transforming the ecology of semiosis itself.
The series invites readers to reconsider LLMs not as intelligent agents or mere predictors of text, but as executable manifestations of distributed construal, participants in a recursive, relationally extended symbolic universe.
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