Commentary: The Three Unfinished Songs and Their Relational-Ontological Functions

The First Song – Partial Stance (Quarks)

• Myth: a half-formed melody, trembling, unable to stand alone

• Ontology: quarks as partial metabolic stances

• Interpretation: some potentials cannot stabilise in isolation; they require co-metabolic alignment. The song’s incompleteness mirrors the relational necessity that quarks always combine to form complete nucleons.

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The Second Song – Braided Pathways (Gluons)

• Myth: threads of melody weaving between partial notes

• Ontology: gluons as internal ecological pathways of inclination

• Interpretation: these pathways do not exist independently; they maintain coherence within the incomplete metabolic stances. They are relational connectors, not objects, ensuring partial stances can harmonise into a stable rhythm.

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The Third Song – Completed Stance (Protons & Neutrons)

• Myth: triads forming a stable, enduring melody

• Ontology: nucleons as completed metabolic stances

• Interpretation: once partial stances link via internal pathways, the full metabolic entity emerges. It can persist, interact with external ecological pathways (photons), and participate in higher-level formations (atoms and molecules).

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The Dance of the Three Songs – Metabolism & Ecology

• Myth: the three songs harmonising into a cosmic symphony

• Ontology: the interplay of horizon, metabolism, and ecological propagation

• Interpretation: potential (readiness) manifests differently at each level:

  1. Partial stances (quarks) are local metabolic potential

  2. Braided pathways (gluons) are relational cohesion within metabolic entities

  3. Completed stances (nucleons) are persistent metabolic structures that can release inclination into the broader ecology (photons)

Together, they model how complex cosmic structures emerge relationally, not by assembling objects, but by layering modes of readiness, stabilisation, and propagation.

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The Moral of the Allegory

• Mythically: nothing in the world exists alone; songs, like stances, only emerge through interaction.

• Ontologically: the cosmos is a network of co-dependent metabolic and ecological processes, where every partial stance, every relational pathway, and every completed metabolic entity participates in sustaining the overall harmony of becoming.