This brings together the entire architecture we have developed:
from relational ontology to category theory, from modality to readiness, from quantum to relativity.
It states, with full commitment:
Meaning, physics, and ontology all arise from a single principle:
the world is structured potential, and every phenomenon is a perspectival cut through that potential.
Nothing exists as a thing.
Everything exists as readiness — internally shaped, externally constrained, and actualised through construal.
This is the logic of relational potential.
1. Ontology: The World as Structured Potential
Relational ontology begins with one decisive shift:
There are no pre-given objects; there are only structured potentials that become eventive when cut by a perspective.
A system is a theory of possible instances.
An instance is not a thing but a perspectival actualisation —
a cut that temporarily stabilises part of the system’s potential.
Meaning arises in the cut, not in the world-before-cutting.
All phenomena are construed phenomena.
There is no “raw” or “uninterpreted” world behind them.
This is the metaphysical ground.
2. Category Theory: The Grammar and Logic of Potential
Category theory enters not as mathematics but as conceptual metalanguage:
A category is the general form of structured readiness.
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Objects = potentials
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Morphisms = admissible pathways of actualisation
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Composition = the coherence of pathways
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Functoriality = the invariance of readiness across variation
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Natural transformations = the calibration of competing readiness assignments
Category theory reveals that:
Potential is always structured.
Structure is always relational.
Relation is always directional.
This is the grammar of potential.
3. Readiness: The Semantic Face of Potential
Halliday’s “readiness” — inclination and ability — gives us the missing distinction:
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Inclination = endogenous directional bias of potential
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Ability = exogenous coherence conditions that qualify which transitions can be sustained
Together, inclination + ability form:
the internally-external architecture of readiness:
potential shaped from within, conditioned from without.
Category theory reframes this:
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inclination = internal morphism pressure
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ability = external coherence constraint
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readiness = a functor mapping actors to their structured space of possible unfolding
Readiness is the semantic version of what category theory formalises.
4. Actualisation: The Event as a Cut Through Readiness
An event is not what happens in time.
An event is the perspectival selection of a morphism:
Actualisation = choosing one admissible pathway through structured readiness.
This cut:
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stabilises one transition among many
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establishes a local configuration of coherence
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creates a phenomenon (construed experience)
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manifests an instance of the system
There is no “collapse” or “motion” or “becoming.”
Only the cut, and the relation it brings into focus.
5. Quantum Readiness: Micro-Potential as Internal Multiplicity
Quantum theory becomes the study of fine-grained readiness:
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superposition = internal multiplicity of inclination
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the wavefunction = a local section of readiness
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the quantum field = distributed readiness across locales
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measurement = functorial restriction + actualising cut
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entanglement = shared readiness structure, not mysterious influence
The mysterious becomes transparent:
Quantum phenomena are the micro-architecture of readiness.
Events actualise only one path.
Readiness remains distributed.
There is no paradox.
6. Relativistic Readiness: Macro-Potential as External Coherence
Relativity becomes the study of how readiness varies across locales:
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special relativity = coherence functor preserving readiness under perspectival change
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general relativity = curvature as non-trivial readiness variation
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spacetime = the base category of locales of construal
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parallel transport = cartesian morphisms preserving coherence
No geometry.
No fabric.
Only:
A category of locales with coherence morphisms determining which construals can agree.
Everything “moves” only because construals change.
7. Unified Physics: A Fibred Field of Readiness
Physics becomes a fibred category:
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Base () = relativistic readiness variation across locales
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Fibres = quantum readiness at each locale
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Cartesian morphisms = coherence-preserving transformations
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Total category = the full quantum–relativistic readiness field
Thus:
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superposition (internal multiplicity)
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curvature (external variation)
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entanglement (shared fibre structure)
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time dilation (coherence transformation across locales)
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quantum measurement (micro-cut)
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physical events (macro-anchored micro-cuts)
…all become special cases of one architecture.
The physical world is a fibred field of readiness;
every phenomenon is a perspectival cut in this field.
8. Meaning: Actualising Potential Through Construal
Finally we return to meaning.
Meaning is not mental.
Meaning is not representational.
Meaning is not cognitive.
Meaning is:
the disciplined actualisation of potential through construal.
Thus:
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physics studies potential-to-events,
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linguistics studies potential-to-texts,
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ontology studies potential-to-experience.
They are all variations of the same system.
We are now ready to state the manifesto in its strongest form:
All that exists is structured potential.
All that occurs is a cut in potential.
All coherence is functorial.
All meaning is actualisation.
All physics is readiness.
All experience is construed.
Quantum theory, relativity, grammar, and ontology
are not separate domains.
They are four articulations of one architecture:
the categorical logic of relational potential.
This is the new foundation:
system → readiness → cut → phenomenon → meaning → world.
Everything else is secondary.
Everything else is a consequence.
Everything else is detail.
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