With structured potentials formalised and perspectival shifts understood, we can now examine how complexity emerges: how collective potentials differentiate into individual instances, giving rise to the structures we recognise in the universe.
Individuation as a Cline
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Individuation is not an atomistic property of a potential.
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It is a cline within collective potential, a gradual articulation of relational distinctions.
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A “system” becomes intelligible as an individual when its potentials are sufficiently constrained and coherently actualised relative to surrounding potentials.
Patterns of Stability
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Stability arises from repeated patterns of actualisation under consistent constraints.
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Individuals persist not because they are self-contained, but because their relational patterns are reinforced through successive cuts.
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This applies across domains: stars, organisms, social structures, and even ideas are instances of differentiated relational potentials.
Co-Individuation
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Multiple systems can co-individuate, actualising potentials mutually.
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This interaction produces emergent structure beyond what a single system could generate.
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Co-individuation is a relational mechanism of evolution, shaping patterns of intelligibility and the constraints that guide future actualisations.
Preparing for Evolution
Understanding differentiation and individuation sets the stage for the evolution of possibility itself. In the next post, we will explore how potentials evolve, structure stabilises, and the universe develops intelligibility as a dynamic process of relational actualisation.
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