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