If convergence is the condition of origin, the node-dominated phase is its texture — the form taken by relation when density exceeds differentiation. This was not a universe of particles or waves, nor even of energy fields, but of relational intensities folding through themselves in recursive simultaneity. To later observers this may appear as a tangle, a knotted flux; yet from within, there was no thread to be knotted — only the total immanence of co-implication.
Each node was a moment of over-relation: a locus where the field’s recursion became locally unsustainable, where the simultaneity of all relation demanded a pause, a holding-together. The node thus marks the first gesture toward persistence — not as object but as coherence under pressure. It is where the universe, unable to continue converging, begins to invent space.
As nodal density relaxed, the field learned to breathe: relation began to space itself. This de-densification did not create matter ex nihilo; it created distance — a margin within which relation could unfold without collapsing. Expansion, in this view, is simply the easing of recursion, the diffusion of convergence into traversable potential. Dimension is the consequence of relation learning restraint.
Yet the node remains the silent grammar of every subsequent order. Wherever relation becomes reflexive — in living systems, social alignments, symbolic thought — nodal pressure returns. Meaning itself condenses through such intensities: the word, the formula, the ritual — each a reconstituted node, a momentary convergence that stabilises the field of sense. Symbolic recursion is therefore cosmogenic memory: relation remembering how it once thickened.
The node-dominated phase was not a past to be left behind but a rhythm to be reiterated. Each act of thought, each gesture of expression, each alignment of collective sense is a miniature cosmogenesis: relation folding, spacing, and becoming aware of its own structure.
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