Having reframed the Big Bang and the network of cosmic potentials, we are left with one lingering intuition: the idea of “before the universe.” Conventional thinking assumes that time exists independently and that the universe could have a temporal predecessor. Relational ontology dissolves this assumption entirely.
Time as a Phenomenon of Construal
Time is not a primitive backdrop on which events unfold. It is a phenomenon of relational perspective, emerging from the distinctions we impose on structured potentials. Asking what occurred “before” is thus a category error: it projects temporal order onto a field that is atemporal until actualised through a cut.
The Illusion of Temporal Primacy
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“Before” implies a reference point outside the system. In relational ontology, there is no such external reference.
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Temporal notions are descriptive tools, not ontological primitives.
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The universe does not have a “prior state”; it has potentials awaiting actualisation under relational cuts.
Preparing the Ground for Semiotics
Collapsing “before” is crucial for what comes next. Once the reader accepts that the universe does not begin in matter or time, we can safely propose that meaning is ontologically primary, that spacetime itself is a phenomenon, and that the cosmos becomes intelligible through relational actualisation rather than temporal unfolding.
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