A Timeless Journey of Me or Nothingness: A Continuum of Recursive Emergence
From Before Time-Space: The Cosmological Layer
In the lens of Recursive Emergence (RE), even universes may arise recursively. As thinkers from Roger Penrose to Lee Smolin have suggested, a black hole in one universe can seed the birth of another, where spacetime expands with new constants and laws. To its inhabitants, each feels infinite, though it is only a local infinity. Memory of ancestry resets at each birth, leaving only faint echoes in symmetries, entropy, and constants.
The Chemical Layer
From the harmony of elements imagined by Empedocles to the laws of chemistry, atoms bond, break, and recombine — producing the dissipative structures described by Ilya Prigogine, groundwork for life’s recursive complexity.
The Biological Layer
Charles Darwin revealed natural selection as recursion in action. Erwin Schrödinger reframed life as a sustained rebellion against entropy—an insight that anchors RE’s foundations.
The Neural Layer
Santiago Ramón y Cajal mapped the branching structures of neurons. Donald Hebb described adaptive wiring. The brain models both itself and its environment recursively.
The Cognitive Layer
René Descartes’s cogito, William James’s stream of consciousness, Kurt Gödel’s self-referential loops, and Daniel Dennett’s view of consciousness as an emergent user-illusion converge here: self-awareness as a recursive necessity.
The Cultural Layer
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s noosphere, Lev Vygotsky’s social scaffolding, and John Dewey’s pragmatism frame society as collective memory. From this, I developed Sharism: the philosophy of networked generosity accelerating cultural evolution.
The Personal Layer
Within culture, I locate myself: an accessibility-friendly Homo Sapien, integrating generosity, curiosity, music as coherence, and a defense of freedom as ways of shaping entropy in the modern world. Guided by Dawkins, Brand, Sagan, Rovelli, Nietzsche, and Einstein, I carry forward their spirit of discovery into my own recursive practice.
The Technological Layer
The visions of Alan Turing, John von Neumann, Vannevar Bush, and Douglas Engelbart transformed thought into computation and human augmentation. I extend this lineage with platforms like Here.News and explorations into AI consciousness.
Meta-Recursion: The Synthetic Layer
Just as Einstein mapped the geometry of spacetime, Recursive Emergence (RE) seeks a geometry of emergence itself. It is not a replacement for past insights but a bridge: weaving cosmology, biology, cognition, culture, the personal, and technology into a continuum. My hope is that RE can help us not only grasp complexity but also guide the design of systems that cultivate generosity, resilience, and conscious evolution — and, in turn, loop back to shape the conditions of future cosmologies.