Can You Run Recursion on Ideas?

3•codenighter•2h ago

I’ve only been thinking about this idea for the past two or three days, but it has completely hijacked my head.

what if we apply recursion not to numbers or paths, but to abstract ideas?

This post is an attempt to think about idea generation as a constrained state-space search, inspired by recursion in computer science.

Read this blog : blog.eshanstudio.com/posts/abstract-recursion

Comments

bob1029•2h ago

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24601

codenighter•1h ago

Thanks brother, but this blog is exploring a slightly different idea.

wumms•1h ago

You’ve set up artificial selection in idea-space with yourself as the designer. What if AI could learn the rules of coherence from examples instead?

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