Question 1

What is the meaning of recursion?

Accepted Answer

Recursion (noun) means: When a pattern repeats by returning to its previous state and doing again what it did before. It emerges from pattern, repeats, previous: A pattern refers back to an earlier instance of itself in time, causing a repetition within itself. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 15, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

Question 2

What does recursion emerge from?

Accepted Answer

Recursion emerges from pattern, repeats, previous. A pattern refers back to an earlier instance of itself in time, causing a repetition within itself. Properties present in the whole and in none of the parts: self-reference, infinite nesting.

Question 3

How does recursion chain down to the foundations?

Accepted Answer

Recursion is at computed level 15. Its chain runs through pattern down to the four foundations: space, time, energy and pattern. Levels are computed from the graph, never asserted.

contrasts-with	oscillation.motion	oscillation alternates between states; recursion builds on prior self
abstracts	cycle.loop	recursion is a form of cycle with memory of depth

recursion · process

Emergence

Chain to foundations

Neighborhood

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Provenance