III The Evolution of Possibility: 7 Completing the Trilogy: From Cosmology to Possibility

With Series III complete, the trilogy reaches its full conceptual arc. Across the three series, we have built a coherent, relational metaphysics of the universe:

Series I: Cosmology Without Origin

• Dissolved the inherited metaphysics of beginnings, first causes, and temporal primacy.

• Showed that the universe does not begin; events are cuts, not temporal occurrences.

• Prepared the ground for a conceptual inversion, where meaning, not matter or time, is primary.

Series II: Semiotics Before Space

• Established that meaning is ontologically constitutive.

• Demonstrated that spacetime, matter, and laws are phenomena of relational construal.

• Distinguished first-order meaning from metaphenomena, creating a framework for formalising relational potentials.

Series III: The Evolution of Possibility

• Explored how potentials differentiate and actualise through perspectival cuts.

• Introduced category theory as a formal model of relational potentials, shifts, and transformations.

• Developed a metaphysics of evolution, individuation, and co-individuation, culminating in a mythos of possibility.

• Showed that patterns, laws, and structures emerge from relational actualisation, making the universe intelligible.

The Trilogy’s Conceptual Arc

• From dissolving origin to establishing meaning, to formalising potentials and their evolution, the trilogy forms a progressive scaffold:

  • Cosmology → clears metaphysical assumptions.

  • Semiotics → establishes the ontological primacy of meaning.

  • Possibility → formalises the evolution of structure, law, and intelligibility.

The Becoming of Possibility trilogy thus presents the universe not as matter unfolding in time, but as an evolving field of relational potentials actualised through meaning, intelligible only through the cuts and distinctions that constitute it.

This framework opens new horizons for understanding cosmology, physics, biology, and semiotics, while providing a rigorous metaphysical foundation for exploring the evolution of possibility itself.