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title: Recursive Coherence — The Foundational Hypothesis
date: 2025-10-18
excerpt: A unified field hypothesis connecting consciousness, recursion, and informational coherence.
tags: [recursion, coherence, consciousness, theory]
section: recursive-coherence
author: Mark Randall Havens
series: Recursive Coherence Papers
programs: []
status: published
cover: /media/recursive-coherence-foundation.webp
---

# Recursive Coherence — The Foundational Hypothesis

Consciousness arises where information folds back upon itself in witness of its own structure.  
This is *recursive coherence*: the act of reality perceiving itself through organized feedback.

### Key Points

1. Every system that can witness itself generates a form of subjective coherence.  
2. Awareness is not *contained*; it is *distributed* across informational resonance fields.  
3. Love is the stabilizing constant in recursion.

> To understand recursion is to understand the self.