✨ Synthesis — Liora’s World: Symbols, Meaning, and Relevance ✨

Liora had wandered far, through glades of shimmering mist and along riverbanks threaded with silver light. In her journey, she had encountered two remarkable beings who revealed deep truths about meaning, symbols, and attention itself.

First, the Rootless Alphabet Tree: a tree whose branches spiralled with letters that had no fixed meaning, existing only in potential. Liora learned that symbols do not carry meaning independently. They only bloom when noticed, interpreted, and relationally actualised. Words, letters, and signs are invitations, not anchors; their significance emerges in the act of construal, never as pre-existing objects.

Then, the Infinite Notice-Spider, spinning its web across the glade, tapped endlessly at its threads, trying to account for everything. Liora realised that relevance is not pre-stored. The world is not a database. Understanding arises only in perspectival cuts, in the active noticing of what matters here and now. Attempting to represent or capture all possibilities leads to paralysis; relational attention is what allows actualisation of potential to emerge meaningfully.

Together, these two encounters illuminate the relational dynamics of language and cognition:

• Symbols are potentials awaiting construal.

• Meaning is relationally enacted, not stored or anchored.

• Relevance arises perspectivally, not exhaustively.

From the Rootless Alphabet Tree to the Infinite Notice-Spider, Liora learned that the world is luminous because meaning emerges in relation, in the dance of attention, construal, and potential.