Evolution is the cosmos learning to lean.
Across the preceding posts, we have traced the consequences of reframing potential as inclined ability:
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De-abstraction: potential is active readiness, not a latent backdrop.
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Redistribution of causality: cause is the local alignment of inclining abilities, not a chain of necessity.
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Contextual modulation: ability varies with context, while inclination persists as the system’s lean.
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Temporality: time emerges as tensioned unfolding of readiness, not a container for events.
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Semioticisation of physics: probability is epistemic; readiness is ontic, structuring actualisation.
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Reflexivity: the cosmos recognises its own leanings, iteratively calibrating inclination through abilities.
Synthesising these insights, evolution itself is no longer simply the accumulation of change over time. Rather, it is the refinement of inclined ability variation. Reality evolves by differentiating its abilities across contexts while maintaining coherence in inclination, and by recursively reflecting on these differentiations to guide further unfolding.
In this view:
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Complexity arises not from adding entities but from articulating the dependencies of readiness across scales.
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Emergence is the resolution of tension in a field of inclining potentialities.
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Innovation is the discovery of new alignments of ability under persistent inclination.
Thus, the cosmos is an active grammar: a system of inclinations, a field of abilities, a set of relational rules continually realised and refined through interaction with context. Evolution is the semiotic enactment of potential, the ongoing learning of reality to lean coherently, and the continual expansion of what it can become.
Reality, at every scale, is a text in motion: composed, interpreted, and revised by its own readiness. And this is the ultimate implication of the inclined ability turn: the universe is not merely evolving; it is becoming aware of how to become.
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