Emergent worlds are not passive recipients of relational dynamics; they are reflexive agents, capable of shaping their own ontogenetic trajectories. Reflexive actualisation occurs when relational fields modulate their own flows, gradients, and structures, aligning potential with emerging configurations to sustain coherence and enable transformation.
This reflexivity is both structural and energetic. Patterns of circulation, intensity, and alignment feed back into the field, producing self-correcting adjustments. Flows are redirected, thresholds recalibrated, and folds reinforced or reoriented, creating worlds that can maintain stability while remaining open to novelty. Reflexive actualisation is thus the mechanism by which worlds co-individuate, continuously negotiating between persistence and change.
Reflexivity also operates across scales and modalities. Local interactions shape micro-patterns while systemic feedback guides the evolution of global structures. Reflexive processes synchronise these levels, ensuring that emergent patterns are coherent, responsive, and generative. The world, in this sense, is not merely acted upon; it participates actively in its own formation.
Crucially, reflexive actualisation is temporal as well as spatial. Each moment of modulation preserves memory of prior configurations, accumulates influence, and opens the field for future possibilities. Worlds are therefore historical actors, shaping themselves in relation to their own unfolding trajectories while remaining attuned to ongoing relational dynamics.
Through reflexive actualisation, ontogenesis becomes a self-sustaining process: potential is actualised, stabilised, and reinvested in the field; structures and flows adapt to emergent pressures; and worlds maintain coherence while continuously exploring new avenues of possibility. Reflexivity transforms mere emergence into sustained, responsive, and generative worlding.
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