If sequence is a feature of construal rather than reality, we must next reconsider the very stuff of the universe. In relational ontology, cosmic potentials do not require a substrate. They exist as structured relational configurations, intelligible only through the cuts that actualise them.
Beyond Matter and Space
We are accustomed to thinking of potential as something “in” a space, “on” a substrate, or “within” time. But these are representational habits. Potentials need no container—no stage on which to perform. They exist in the relational field itself, as patterns of possibility that can be actualised perspectivally.
Actualisation as the Only Anchor
What anchors a potential? Not matter, not energy, not spacetime—but the act of perspectival distinction. Each actualisation is a cut through the network of possibilities, a way for a system to articulate itself. The Big Bang, galaxies, planets, or atoms are all instances of relational potential made intelligible, not origins in a temporal sense.
Implications for Cosmology
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Events are relational distinctions, not points in space or moments in time.
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Physical law is a descriptive pattern, emerging from the structured network of potentials rather than imposed externally.
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“The universe” is a continuously intelligible relational field, not a collection of pre-existing objects or substances.
By shifting focus from substrates to structured potentials, we prepare the conceptual ground for understanding actualisation, semiotics, and the evolution of possibility. This is the true canvas on which the universe becomes intelligible—not a stage of matter, but a field of relation.
Next, Post 5: The Big Bang as Construal Logic will take this further, showing the Big Bang as a perspectival anchor and actualisation, entirely reframed through relational ontology, without invoking physics.
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