This is such a powerful articulation of recursion. What it opens up, at least for me, is the societal dimension: a society made of recursive minds becomes capable of collective metacognition. Without recursion, institutions reproduce their blind spots. With it, they can finally update.
The individual loop becomes the foundation for a coherent collective.
Your piece feels like a sibling to an idea I recently wrote about:
This is such a powerful articulation of recursion. What it opens up, at least for me, is the societal dimension: a society made of recursive minds becomes capable of collective metacognition. Without recursion, institutions reproduce their blind spots. With it, they can finally update.
The individual loop becomes the foundation for a coherent collective.
Your piece feels like a sibling to an idea I recently wrote about:
https://open.substack.com/pub/brendenstrauss/p/the-fingerprint-of-the-mind?r=21b1es&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Interesting, I’ll check it out! Thanks for sharing 🤗
this was far better than any uni lecture i ever had about systems theory !!!
I’m so glad! Maybe they’ll teach me one day 🤣
Very well written, your views are quite profound.
Why thank you very much, I appreciate it! 🙂↕️
I’m glad you enjoyed it 🫶🏽