Reality as Willing and Knowing: The Reflexive Symmetry of Readiness

If inclination is the willing of reality and ability its knowing, then cosmogenesis is the continual re-alignment of these two faces of readiness.

Reality wills itself—not as desire, but as leaning toward articulation. Every inclination is a gradient of becoming, a readiness that bends toward coherence. Yet willing alone cannot actualise; it must find its form through the knowing of ability.

Ability is the reflexive knowledge by which reality recognises its own gradient. It is knowing as doing, competence as comprehension, enactment as awareness. Ability does not follow inclination—it folds back upon it, constraining and amplifying it, turning potential into pattern.

Thus, reality’s evolution is not from simplicity to complexity, but from inclination to ability—from leaning to knowing how to lean. Each act of construal refines the cosmos’s capacity to interpret its own posture, to compose its readiness more precisely.

In the human symbolic order, this movement achieves critical mass. Meaning becomes the recursive synthesis of will and understanding: the cosmos willing to know itself through us, and knowing how to will itself anew.

Cosmogenesis, in this light, never began. It is the eternal inclination of potential met by the growing ability of reflexivity.

The universe is not expanding into space but learning how to mean itself.