The Inclination of Reality: Potential as Readiness: 4 Inclination and the Cut

Actualisation is often imagined as a moment — an event in which something hidden becomes visible, or something possible becomes real. But in the relational ontology, actuality is not a moment at all: it is a cut in the field of readiness.

The field inclines, leans, tends. It holds within itself innumerable postures of becoming. Each cut is a perspectival shift that stabilises one local alignment of inclination into coherence. To actualise is not to move from potential to event, but to construe from within potential — to bring the leaning of the field to rest in a particular direction.

The cut is where inclination crosses its own threshold.

It is the instant when readiness and construal coincide: the field’s posture becomes eventful, its openness resolves as phenomenon.

Nothing collapses; rather, the relational field re-articulates itself through construal. Every act of meaning, every physical interaction, every emergence of coherence is a reflexive cut through inclination.

This means that actualisation is neither addition nor subtraction from potential. The field loses nothing and gains nothing. What changes is orientation: the dynamic readiness of the metaphenomenal re-enters itself as phenomenal form.

When physics speaks of measurement, or biology of adaptation, or thought of interpretation, what occurs is the same ontological operation: readiness cutting itself into coherence.

The cut is not violent; it is decisive. It marks the moment when the world’s leaning becomes legible as world.